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John Singleton Copley: The Copley Family Portrait of Paul Revere showing Revere seated at a table, holding a silver teapot and resting his chin on his hand. Portrait of Jane Brown by John Singleton Copley, showing a woman with dark hair in a pink dress with lace trim and yellow shawl, set against a dark blue background.
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John Singleton Copley: Anne Fairchild Bowler (Mrs. Metcalf Bowler) John Singleton Copley: Portrait of Hugh Montgomerie, Later Twelfth Earl of Eglinton Painting by John Singleton Copley showing men in a boat rescuing a nude man from a shark in the water, with city buildings and ships in the background. portrait of Thomas Gage by John Singleton Copley William Murray, 1st earl of Mansfield, detail of an oil painting by John Singleton Copley, 1783; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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John Singleton Copley

American painter
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John Singleton Copley (born July 3, 1738, Boston, Massachusetts [U.S.]—died September 9, 1815, London, England) was an American painter of portraits and historical subjects, generally acclaimed as the finest artist of colonial America. Little is known of Copley’s boyhood. He gained familiarity with graphic art from his stepfather, the limner and engraver Peter Pelham, and developed an early sense of vocation: before he was 20 he was already an accomplished draughtsperson. Copley soon discovered that...

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