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Born July 3, 1738 • Boston • Massachusetts
Died September 9, 1815 (aged 77) • London • England
Notable Works “Boy with a Flying Squirrel” • “Watson and the Shark”
Movement / Style English school

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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.
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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