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John Singleton Copley | |
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 Self-Portrait, c. 1769, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, Delaware | |
| Born | July 3, 1738 |
| Died | September 9, 1815 (aged 77) London, England |
| Education | Peter Pelham |
| Known for | Portraiture |
| Notable work | Watson and the Shark (1778) |
| Spouse | Susanna Clark |
| Children | John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst |
| Parent(s) | Richard Copley and Mary Singleton Copley |
John Singleton Copley /ˈkɑːpli/ RA (July 3, 1738[1] – September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was believed to be born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. After becoming well-established as a portrait painter of the wealthy in colonial New England,[2][3] he moved to London in 1774, never returning to America. In London, he met considerable success as a portraitist for the next two decades, and also painted a number of large history paintings, which were innovative in their readiness to depict modern subjects and modern dress. His later years were less successful, and he died heavily in debt. He was father of John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst and half-brother of Henry Pelham, the American painter, engraver, and cartographer.
- ^ Allan Cunningham gives the date of his birth as July 3, 1737 (The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, 1830–33, V, 162), but the published Boston Records have no entry confirming this date. Copley himself wrote on September 12, 1766, to Peter Pelham, his step-brother, that he had had "resolution enough to live a bachelor to the age of twenty-eight" ("Letters and Papers of John Singleton Copley and Henry Pelham", p. 48, Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls., vol. LXXI (1914)). His daughter, Elizabeth Clarke Greene (in a letter quoted by William Dunlap, A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States, vol. I, p. 119. Ed. F. W. Bayley and C. E. Goodspeed, 1918) spoke of her father as "born in 1738." Worthington C. Ford, editor of the Copley-Pelham correspondence, and Frank W. Bayley, a biographer, accept the evidence as indicating that the artist "was born in 1738, and not in 1737 as usually stated" ("Copley-Pelham Letters," p. 48). James Thomas Flexner, John Singleton Copley (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948), p. 4, gives the "probable" birthdate as July 3, 1738.
- ^ Hagood, Martha N.; Harrison, Jefferson C. (2005). "Foreword". American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings. University of Virginia Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-940744-71-4. OCLC 886269245.
His many portraits of influential New Englanders—merchants, clergymen, lawyers—were remarkable for their craftsmanlike polish and clarity of design.
- ^ James, Edward T., ed. (1971). "Pelham, Mary". Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Belknap Press. p. 44. ISBN 0-674-62734-2. Retrieved July 6, 2017 – via Google Books.
… his superbly crafted, realistic portraits of a prosperous and materialistic colonial society won him esteem and prosperity.