1. John Singleton Copley - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia John Singleton Copley (1738 1 1815) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Singleton_Copley

John Singleton Copley From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search John Singleton Copley Portrait of Copley by Gilbert Stuart Birth name John Singleton Copley Born Boston Province of Massachusetts Bay Died September 9 London United Kingdom Nationality American Field Portraiture Famous works Watson and the Shark John Singleton Copley ) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish. He is famous for his portraits of important figures in colonial New England , depicting in particular middle-class subjects. His paintings were innovative in their tendency to depict artifacts relating to these individuals' lives. Contents Biography Early life Rising reputation Move to London and the European tour ... edit Biography edit Early life Copley's mother in his early boyhood kept a tobacco shop on Long Wharf The parents, who according to the artist's granddaughter, Martha Babcock Amory, came to Boston in 1736, were "engaged in trade, like almost all the inhabitants of the North American colonies at that time". The father was from Limerick ; the mother, of the Singletons of

2. NGA - John Singleton Copley John Singleton Copley, the foremost artist in colonial America, was virtually selftaught as a portraitist. By meticulously recording details, http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg60b/gg60b-main1.html

Tour: John Singleton Copley (American, 1738-1815) Overview Start Tour next back to American painting Overview John Singleton Copley, the foremost artist in colonial America, was virtually self-taught as a portraitist. By meticulously recording details, he created powerful characterizations of his Boston sitters. After he emigrated to London in 1774, Copley began to specialize in narrative scenes from history and joined the influential artistic institution, the Royal Academy of Art. Copley demonstrated a genius, in both his American and British periods, for rendering surface textures and capturing emotional immediacy. Captions John Singleton Copley, Jane Browne, 1756 John Singleton Copley, Epes Sargent, c. 1760 John Singleton Copley, Anne Fairchild Bowler (Mrs. Metcalf Bowler), c. 1763 John Singleton Copley, Elizabeth Gray Otis (Mrs. Samuel Alleyne Otis), c. 1764 ... National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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John Singleton Copley John Singleton Copley was a Boston-born American artist of the colonial period, famous for his portraits of important figures in colonial New England, particularly men and women of the middle class. His portraits were innovative in that they tended to portray their subjects with artifacts that were indicative of their lives. He was born to Irish immigrant Richard Copley and his wife Mary Singleton Copley. Copleies owned and ran a tobacco shop in Boston. By 1748, Richard Copley had died 1748, Mary Copley married Peter Pelham, an engraver and teacher, and moved with her son to a quieter and more respectable part of Boston. John Singleton Copley was only about 13 years old in 1751 when his stepfather, Peter Pelham, died. John Singleton Copley began painting portraits in his teens in his native Boston. Although self-taught, he was familiar with European art through the study of prints in the collection of his stepfather, the engraver Peter Pelham. Copley was married to Susanna Farnham Clarke, whose father, Richard, was one of Boston’s richest merchants and local agent for the British East India Company. The couple had six children during their 45-year marriage. In 1774, Copley migrated to England with his family to continue painting there. He moved on to Paris, Genoa and Rome before returning to London nine months later. In 1776 he visited Italy where he worked on devotional pictures. Later in the same year he settled in London with his family. In London he continued as a portrait painter, but his fine style lost its originality: he followed fashion rather then conviction. With demand for history subjects much greater in England than America, he pursued this genre seeking new modes of expression and using modern costume for historical characters.

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arts marketplace browse the arts submit arts news media kit ... Artist : John Singleton Copley Nationality: American Movement: English School Media: Painting Influences: Biography: John Singleton Copley was born in Boston to Irish parents. He was a self-taught artist who established himself at a portraitist in Boston by the late 1750’s. After one of his paintings was shown at the Royal Society of Arts in London, Copley’s work became internationally known. He settled in London in the mid 1770’s and became an associate of the Royal Academy. Copley is well known for his piece, The Death of Chatham, as well as his portraits of the royal family, and other leading American and British political and military figures. Artworks in Museum Collections: (40) Click the artwork titles below to see actual examples of artwork or works of art relevant to works by John Singleton Copley. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco - John Singleton Copley, Joshua Henshaw, circa 1770 John Singleton Copley - The Copley Family 1776-1777 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco - John Singleton Copley, William Vassall and His Son Leonard, circa 1770 - 1772

7. Timken Museum: John Singleton Copley John Singleton Copley 1738 1815 Mrs. Thomas Gage, 1771 Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 in. In 1771, Copley left his native Boston for a six-month stay in New York, http://www.timkenmuseum.org/1-american-copley.html

var setPage = "programs"; John Singleton Copley Mrs. Thomas Gage Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 in In 1771, Copley left his native Boston for a six-month stay in New York, where he accepted numerous portrait commissions. His first subject was Margaret Kemble Gage, the American-born wife of General Thomas Gage, commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America (who had sat for a portrait by the artist in 1768). Mrs. Gage wears a turbanlike swath of drapery, a silk caftan over a lace-trimmed chemise, and an embroidered belt - a Turkish-style costume that enhances her languid pose. Such clothing was fashionable at British fancy dress balls, but since masquerade balls were not held at the time in New York, Mrs. Gage would have had no occasion to wear the costume outside the studio. Her faraway gaze suggests pensive thought and intellectuality, implying that she was not preoccupied with trivial matters. This is the first painting in which Copley depicted a woman in such exotic clothing or in such a state of melancholic reverie. Previous Next Return to American Collection

8. John Singleton Copley John Singleton copley john singleton Copley. America, John Singleton Copley painted portraits and historical subjects. His . http://www.virtualology.com/virtualmuseumofart/hallofamericanart/JOHNSINGLETONCO

You are in: Museum of Art Hall of American Art John Singleton Copley Citation: Website address (ie benjaminfranklin.org ), edited by Stanley L. Klos and volunteer editor's name, if any, listed at bottom - Carnegie, PA 1999-2006. We rely on volunteers to edit the sites on a continual basis. If you would like to edit this site please submit edits and  biographies in text form John Singleton Copley COPLEY, John Singleton , painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts., 3 July, 1737; died in London, 9 September, 1815. I le is commonly called self-taught, but he probably received some instruction from his stepfather, Peter Pelham, who died in 1751. Boston was then a small provincial town where art was almost unknown and good instruction unattainable. Young Copley began at an early age to see visions of lovely forms and faces, which nature impelled him to reproduce with such materials as he could procure or make for himself. In the uncongenial atmosphere of colonial Boston such talent was phenomenal, and, as he was really successful in producing likenesses, he soon gained local celebrity by executing portraits of many members of the leading families, as is still attested by almost every notable collection in the city. In 1760 he sent to Benjamin West, in England, without name or address, a portrait, which at once gave him a place among artists of recognized merit. This painting is known as

9. From Our Cabinet: John Singleton Copley John Singleton Copley, 18thcentury Boston s preeminent portraitist, painted Mrs. John Gray most likely in 1763. His subject, Mary Otis Gray, http://www.masshist.org/cabinet/october2002/october2002.htm

John Singleton Copley Mrs. John Gray (1730-1763). Oil on canvas, circa 1763. 128.2 x 101.7 cm About the Portrait John Singleton Copley, 18th-century Boston's preeminent portraitist, painted Mrs. John Gray most likely in 1763. His subject, Mary Otis Gray, was the daughter of James and Mary Allyne Otis of Barnstable, Massachusetts. Born in 1730, Mary had many siblings, among them James Otis, Jr., and Mercy Otis Warren, who both became active in the Revolutionary cause in America. In 1761, Mary wed John Gray, a Boston merchant, ropewalk owner, and collector of customs, and a Tory. She died on November 5 of the year that Copley painted this portrait. In 1923, a bequest of Pelham Winslow Warren gave the painting, along with mourning rings for Mrs. Gray and her infant son, John, to the Society. Mrs. John Gray is representative of John Singleton Copley's mature American style. Although his drawing remained a weak point-here evident in Mrs. Gray's awkward right arm and her hands-Copley employed a subtler use of shading and shadow than in his earlier portraits, as well as a sophisticated composition of vertical and diagonal elements. About John Singleton Copley Copley Portraits at the Massachusetts Historical Society top The Massachusetts Historical Society ... Terms and Conditions Who was John Singleton Copley?

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14. WebMuseum: Copley, John Singleton 9, 1815, London, Eng.) Generally considered the finest painter of colonial America, john singleton copley painted portraits and historical subjects. http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/copley/

Copley, John Singleton Copley, John Singleton (b. July 3, 1738, Boston [Mass., U.S.]d. Sept. 9, 1815, London, Eng.) Generally considered the finest painter of colonial America, John Singleton Copley painted portraits and historical subjects. His Boston portraits show a thorough knowledge of his New England models, and his talent as a draftsman and colorist produced pictures of aristocratic elegance and grace (emigrated to London in 1775). Copley was born on July 3, 1738, in Boston, Mass., to immigrants recently arrived from Ireland. He began to paint in about 1753. His earliest works show the influence of his stepfather, an engraver, and the Boston artist John Smibert. In about 1755 Copley met the English artist Joseph Blackburn, whose use of rococo lightness and coloring he quickly adopted. He also made use of the rococo device called portrait d'apparatportraying the subject with objects associated with his daily lifethat gave his work a distinction not usually found in 18th-century American painting. Eager to expand his reputation beyond New England, Copley sent his

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John Singleton Copley art links last verified November 16, 2007 Link to this page Report errors + broken links here More options John Singleton Copley [American Colonial Era Painter, 1738-1815] Stepson of Peter Pelham from 1848 until Pelham's death in 1851. Studied under Benjamin West Copley's students included Henry Sargent Specializes in Portraits American artists Commercial Galleries: Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service) Original works by John Singleton Copley available for purchase at art galleries worldwide Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries: Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW! 4 works by John Singleton Copley online Butler Institute of American Art , Ohio Mrs. Daniel Rea and Child Dallas Museum of Art , Texas NEW! Sarah Sherburne Langdon Woodbury Langdon John Singleton Copley at the Detroit Institute of Arts , Michigan Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 4 portraits online John Singleton Copley at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City 38 works by John Singleton Copley online Minneapolis Institute of Arts , Minnesota Mrs. Nathaniel Allen

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John Singleton Copley images Buying posters via this link helps Artchive - click here! The Artchive needs EVERYONE to help! If you enjoy this site, please click here to find out how YOU can help to keep it online. See also: American Art VIEW IMAGE LIST Charles Pelham and Mary and Elizabeth Royall , become understandable as representations of wealth and social position. Curtains had been used in portraits since the Renaissance, both for decorative purposes and to suggest interior spaces adjoining the sitter's space, and English painters of the generation of Thomas Hudson (1701-1779) employed them regularly; but they became nearly ubiquitous in Copley's portraits during the 1760s, joining an array of other materials. He typically placed a curtain on one side of the background or the other in his pictures of both men and women and often included either a draped table or an upholstered chair - all in addition to the fabrics of the rich, complex costumes in which his sitters were dressed. Here as in other details Copley missed the mark in terms of contemporary British usage, for by the 1760s Reynolds, Gainsborough , Allan Ramsay, and the like had long since given up such extensive display of fabrics. Copley's reliance on fabrics was made possible by the settings he utilized, which most often represented either interiors or ambiguous porchlike areas, while the British painters by this time had moved their sitters largely to the out-of-doors.

17. CGFA- John Singleton Copley copley Page 1 john Hancock, 1765, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 100KB. Graphic Mrs. Thomas Boylston (Sarah Morecock), 1765-66, http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/copley/index.html

Charles Pelham, 1753-54, oil on canvas, private collection. 122KB The Return of Neptune, 1754, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 147KB Theodore Atkinson, 1757-58, oil on canvas, Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. 107KB Mary MacIntosh Royall and Elizabeth Royall, 1758, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 106KB Epes Sargent, 1959-61, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 76KB Mrs. Samuel Quincy (Hannah Hill), 1761, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 105KB Mrs. Nathaniel Allen (Sarah Sargent), 1763, oil on canvas, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. 109KB Mrs. Benjamin Pickman (Mary Toppan), 1763, oil on canvas, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT. 88KB Mrs. Daniel Sargent (Mary Turner), 1763, oil on canvas, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 84KB Nathaniel Sparhawk, 1764, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 96KB Henry Pelham (Boy with a Squirrel), 1765, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 97KB John Hancock, 1765, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 100KB

18. John Singleton Copley (1738–1815) | Thematic Essay | Timeline Of Art History | john singleton copley unexpectedly illuminated America s colonial sky. The child of poor uncultured parents and only briefly the stepson of artist Peter http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/copl/hd_copl.htm

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19. John Singleton Copley: America's First Great Portrait Artist Portraiture was in great demand in the American colonies in the mid1700s, and john singleton copley of Boston was foremost among the great portrait artists http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/summer97/copley.html

Search this site: Early America Home Freedom Documents Declaration of Independence Bill of Rights ... Summer 97 John Singleton Copley America's First Great Portrait Artist Watson and the Shark By the mid-1700's the portrait was virtually the only art form available to the American painter. Portraiture was in great demand in the colonies and was sufficient to support a small number of artists. Foremost among these was John Singleton Copley. Born in Boston in 1738, Copley was influenced by the mezzotints of his stepfather, Peter Pelham, and the portraits of local portrait painter John Smibert. Copley painted both the young and the aged but emphasized setting to convey the desired mood. Ladies posed before fine furniture and textured draperies; men were surrounded by books and tools, hunting dogs and guns. His style was straightforward and realistic, creating portraits of great strength. Among his many 'subjects' were portraits of John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams and countless lords and ladies of his era, both in America and in London. Eventually, Copley wearied of Boston where, he felt, painting was valued only as a useful craft. The public was "entirely destitute of all just ideas of the arts," so he left for London in 1774. After the painter's obligatory tour of Italy and then settling down in London, Copley turned to historical and religious paintings on a grand scale.

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Olga's Gallery John Singleton Copley Biography Page One John Singleton Copley at Artprice To look at auction records, find Copley's works in upcoming auctions, check price levels and indexes for his works, read his biography and view his signature, access the Artprice database. Charles Pelham. 1753-54. Oil on canvas. Private collection. Mrs. Joseph Mann (Bethia Torrey). 1753. Oil on canvas. 91 x 72 cm. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA. Joseph Mann. 1754. Oil on canvas. 91 x 72 cm. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA. Jane Browne. 1756. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. Portrait of Mrs. Daniel Rea and Child. 1757.Oil on canvas, 124.5 x 99.1 cm. The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, USA. Theodore Atkinson. 1757-58, oil on canvas, Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Mary MacIntosh Royall and Elizabeth Royall. c.1758. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA. Epes Sargent. c. 1760. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. More..

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