American Colonial Era Painter, 1738-1815
John Singleton Copley (1738[1] - 1815) 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 portrait paintings 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. Related Paintings of John Singleton Copley :. | Mrs. Sylvester Gardiner, nee Abigail Pickman, formerly Mrs. William Eppes | watson and the shark | Mrs Ezekiel Goldthwait | The Boy with the Squirrel | Mrs Richard Skinner | Related Artists: Master of the Vienna Lamentation painted Left wing of an altarpiece with the Circumcision and the Virgin of an Annunciation in c. 1515-1525
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