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	John Singleton Copley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Singleton Copley (July 3, 1738 – September 9, 1815) was an American artist of the colonial period, famous for his portraits of important figures in colonial New England.
		He began to specialize in historical narrative scenes which are sometimes dismpissed by croitics as lacking thre vibramncy of his earlier portraits 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.
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	John Singleton Copley - MSN Encarta
		John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), the foremost artist of colonial America and one of its most prolific.
		Copley was born on July 3, 1738, in Boston, and was trained by his stepfather, a mezzotint engraver.
		Copley's early work shows the influence of the Boston painter John Smibert and of English rococo portraitists (see Rococo Style).
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	JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY
		Copley also learned from the paintings of Joseph Blackburn and Robert Feke, but he was, to an extraordinary degree, self-taught.
		Copley's likenesses perfected a style that gave special attention to technical dexterity in surfaces-the sparkling sheen of fabric and the detailed reflections of polished furniture, rendered with strong chiaroscuro-yet still probed the inner personalities of the prosperous sitters who commissioned them.
		Copley went to some pains to demonstrate his youthful virtuosity, particularly in the silvery sheen of Mrs.
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		Copley, in his portraits, made eloquent use of a Rococo device, the portrait d'apparat - portraying the subject with the objects associated with him in his daily life - that gave his work a liveliness and acuity not usually associated with 18th-century American painting.
		When political and economic conditions in Boston began to deteriorate (Copley's father-in-law was the merchant to whom the tea that provoked the Boston Tea Party was consigned), Copley left the country - never to return - in June 1774.
		In his first important work, Watson and the Shark (1778), Copley used what was to become one of the great themes of 19th-century Romantic art, the struggle of man against nature.
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	America's First Great Portrait Artist - The Early America Review, Summer 1997
		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.
		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.
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		(Copley travelled to England[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] to continue painting there.
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	Copley, John Singleton - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Copley is considered the greatest of the American old masters.
		In 1774 Copley visited Italy and then settled in London, where he spent the remainder of his life, enjoying many honors and the patronage of a distinguished clientele.
		Today Copley's reputation rests largely upon his early American portraits, which are treasured not only for their splendid pictorial qualities but also as the most powerful graphic record of their time and place.
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	John Singleton Copley -- American, 1738 - 1815
		John Singleton Copley was born in Boston in 1738, and grew up there, training in the visual arts under his step-father Peter Pelham (c.
		Copley's earliest paintings, from the mid-1750s, reveal the influence of English mezzotint portraits as well as the work of local and itinerant artists.
		Copley worked in Boston until 1774 with the exception of a six month painting trip to New York City in 1771.
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		John Singleton Copley, the foremost artist in colonial America, was virtually self-taught as a portraitist.
		John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778
		John Singleton Copley, The Death of the Earl of Chatham, 1779
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	John Singleton Copley
		Before young John was 10 years old his father had died; in May of 1748 his mother married Peter Pelham, a widower with 5 children.
		Peter Pelham was an artist and schoolteacher; the joining of the Copley and Pelham households brought John Copley into direct contact with the tools and practice of making art.
		Peter Pelham's library familiarized John with contemporary writings about art and aesthetics, and from this he learned that imaginative renditions of historical or mythological scenes were considered the highest forms of art.
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		John Singleton Copley began painting portraits in his teens in his native Boston.
		Copley became a member of the Royal Academy in 1779.
		John Singleton Copley is considered to be the foremost artist of colonial America.
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		John Singleton Copley, 18th-century Boston's preeminent portraitist, painted Mrs.
		John Gray is representative of John Singleton Copley's mature American style.
		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.
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	John Singleton Copley
		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.
		Portrait of John Winthrop by John Singleton Copley...
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	John Singleton Copley (1738–1815) \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Boston and New York, where Copley painted briefly, the possession of works of art–especially English-style pictures–by an artist as accomplished as Copley was of immeasurable social value.
		As a result, Copley's work saturated the market to a degree perhaps unprecedented in the history of art and contributed vitally to the forging of social identity for the American merchant class.
		Copley had another extraordinary skill: he achieved his position as portraitist to the merchant elite of Boston and New York because he thought and behaved like a gentleman.
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		Through laborious work Copley mastered his craft; the portraits he produced between 1753 and 1774, at the height of his fame, were distinguished by the fully rounded modeling and realism which make the personalities of his sujects come alive.
		Copley was unwillingly drawn into the troubled political arena; his loyalist connections made his life in Boston increasingly turbulent and precarious.
		In 1774, at the suggestion of Joshu Reynolds and Benjamin West, Copley became convinced he was wasting his talents in the colonies and moved to London to study the European masters.
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	John Singleton Copley
		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.
		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.
		Copley's American work thus relates to the paintings of Reynolds and Gainsborough in much the same way that American silver and furniture of the period relate to high-style luxury products made in London.
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	John Singleton Copley
		By 1762, when the 34-year-old Boston artist John Singleton Copley painted this extraordinary picture of the stylish Mrs.
		Copley knew he was the best artist in Boston, but he wearied of painting portraits.
		Rogers is one of two paintings that Copley sent to Benjamin West, the American colonial artist who worked at George III's court, to see if West thought that he could succeed in the larger pond of London.
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		Copleys powers appear to greatest advantage in his portraits.
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	Copley, John Singleton
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		Painted in London, this image is one of only four self-portraits by John Singleton Copley, who is admired today for his realistic depictions of colonial American sitters.
		As Copley began to paint larger works, he adjusted his meticulous colonial style to a looser, broader technique, in keeping with British fashion in the 1780s.
		The pose, strong highlighting, and contrasting shadows of this self-portrait are an example of this new manner.
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	John Singleton Copley \| Explore & Learn \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He appealed to the taste and aspirations of his sitters by depicting them in costumes made of expensive fabrics and surrounded by high style furniture.
		Copley provided his sitters with individualized likenesses that were psychologically penetrating and at the same time emphasized wealth and social position.
		Here is a selection of paintings from the Metropolitan Museum's collection that were featured in the exhibition "John Singleton Copley in America." Click on an image below to learn more.
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		Copley was born on July 3, 1738, in Boston, Mass., to immigrants recently arrived from Ireland.
		In this painting Copley used what became a frequent theme of 19th-century Romantic art, the struggle of humans against nature.
		Copley died in London on Sept. 9, 1815.
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		Copley's early work shows the influence of the Boston painter John Smibert and of English rococo portraitists.
		His sitters included famous politicians (John Hancock, 1765, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) and wealthy New Englanders (Mrs.
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		COPLEY, JOHN SINGLETON (1737-1815), English historical painter, was born of Irish parents at Boston, Massachusetts.
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