All COPLEY, John Singleton's oil paintings
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6145 Brook Watson and the Shark sdf Brook Watson and the Shark sdf 1778 Oil on canvas, 182 x 230 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
6146 Mrs John Winthrop dfg Mrs John Winthrop dfg 1773 Oil on canvas, 90,2 x 73 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
83013 Paul Revere Paul Revere 1768(1768) Medium English: Oil on canvas Dimensions English: 35 x 28 1/2" (88.9 x 72.3 cm) cyf
83211 Paul Revere Paul Revere 1768(1768) Medium English: Oil on canvas Dimensions English: 35 x 28 1/2" (88.9 x 72.3 cm) cyf
6143 Paul Revere dsf Paul Revere dsf 1768-70 Oil on canvas, 87,5 x 71,5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
77065 Portrait of Dorothy Quincy Portrait of Dorothy Quincy Date ca. 1772(1772) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 127 ?? 100 cm (50 ?? 39.4 in) cyf
21943 Portrait of Rebecca Boylston (mk08) Portrait of Rebecca Boylston (mk08) 1767 Oil on canvas, 127x101.6cm Boston,Museum of Fine Arts
64558 Self Portrait Self Portrait 1784 Oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington Artist:COPLEY, John Singleton Title: Self Portrait, 1751-1800, English , painting , portrait
6144 Self Portrait dfg Self Portrait dfg 1784 Oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
6142 The Copley Family dsf The Copley Family dsf c. 1776 Oil on canvas, 184,4 x 229,7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
21944 The Death of Major Peirson (mk08) The Death of Major Peirson (mk08) c.1782-1784 Oil on canvas, 247x366cm London,Tate Gallery
COPLEY, John Singleton
American Colonial Era Painter, 1738-1815 American portrait painter, b. Boston. Copley is considered the greatest of the American old masters. He studied with his stepfather, Peter Pelham, and undoubtedly frequented the studios of Smibert and Feke. At 20 he was already a successful portrait painter with a mature style remarkable for its brilliance, clarity, and forthright characterization. In 1766 his Boy with the Squirrel was exhibited in London and won the admiration of Benjamin West, who urged him to come to England. However, he remained in America for eight years longer and worked in New York City and Philadelphia as well as in Boston. 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. In England his style gained in subtlety and polish but lost most of the vigor and individuality of his early work. He continued to paint portraits but enlarged his repertoire to include the enormous historical paintings that constituted the chief basis of his fame abroad. His large historical painting The Death of Lord Chatham (Tate Gall., London) gained him admittance to the Royal Academy. His rendering of a contemporary disaster, Brook Watson and the Shark (Mus. of Fine Arts, Boston), stands as a unique forerunner of romantic horror painting. 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. Portraits such as those of Nicholas Boylston and Mrs. Thomas Boylston (Harvard), Daniel Hubbard (Art Inst., Chicago), Governor Mifflin and Mrs. Mifflin (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia), and Paul Revere (Mus. of Fine Arts, Boston) are priceless documents in which the life of a whole society seems mirrored. . Related Artists to : | Lorenzo Tiepolo | Alexei Venezianov | Heronymus Bosch | DeScott Evans | Allan Ramsay |