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John Singleton Copley
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1738
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John Singleton Copley Biography - American painter
John Singleton Copley was born July 3, 1738 in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1766 he displayed Boy with a Squirrel at the Society of Artists in London. Whenever political and financial conditions in Boston started to crumble (Copley's dad in-law was the dealer to whom the tea that incited the Boston Tea Party was transferred), Copley left the nation in June 1774 and built up a home in England.
Legacy
According to art historian Paul Staiti, Copley was the greatest and most influential painter in colonial America, producing about 350 works of art. With his startling likenesses of persons and things, he came to define a realist art tradition in America. His visual legacy extended throughout the nineteenth century in the American taste for the work of artists as diverse as Fitz Henry Lane and William Harnett. In Britain, while he continued to paint portraits for the élite, his great achievement was the development of contemporary history painting, which was a combination of reportage, idealism, and theatre. He was also one of the pioneers of the private exhibition, orchestrating shows and marketing prints of his own work to mass audiences that might otherwise attend exhibitions only at the Royal Academy, or who previously had not gone to exhibitions at all.
Boston's Copley Square, Copley Square Hotel and Copley Plaza bear his name, as do Copley Township, Summit County, Ohio and Copley crater on Mercury
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