Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, painted by Singleton Copley, c. 1776-80. SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA The constellation Pictor whose configuration is recognized as an easel must have been in perfect ...

John Singleton Copley did not share the politics of revolutionary heroes such as Paul Revere and Sam Adams — but he did paint their portraits. John Singleton Copley: The Painter Who Captured The ...

John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), the first great American painter, once wrote that he “was peculiarly unlucky” to be an artist in the colonies. Though he had thrived professionally in Boston, he ...

Clothing style from the 1700s is on display in a portrait by artist John Singleton Copley that indicates its subject likely was a lawyer. “Portrait of John Gardiner,” which hangs at The Westmoreland ...

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In this life of painter John Singleton Copley, award-winning Harvard historian Jane Kamensky masterfully untangles the web of principles and interests that shaped the age of America's revolution.

“Deep Waters: Four Artists and the Sea,” the title of a new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, is as good as its word. Count, and it adds up. There’s John Singleton Copley, with “Watson and the ...

It was as natural as two lumps in his cup of tea. The year was 1782, and there was Elkanah Watson, 24, a Massachusetts-born merchant visiting London with 100 guineas to burn. As he dined with the ...

All the way from John Singleton Copley to Edward Hopper, realism seems the keynote of American art, and romanticism remains underrated. With the single exception of Albert Pinkham Ryder, the American ...