“that any person could have obtained from them one shilling more.”
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John Singleton Copley
John Singleton Copley was an American-born British painter active in both the Thirteen Colonies and England. He is believed to have been born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. After becoming well-established as a portrait painter of the wealthy in colonial New England, he moved to London in 1774, never returning to America. In London,…
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culture · American-born British painter (1738–1815) · artist · painter · miniature painter · pastellist · printmaker · also John Singleton Copley, John Singleton Copley, the Elder, R.A. Copley, J. S. Copley, Copley, R.A. J.S. Copley
Born 3 July 1738 · Died 9 September 1815 · Q316016
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2026· 5 entries
“He was a sort of snail which crawled over a man in his sleep and left its slime, and no more.”
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“in my time of being here, as I shall see the magnificence of the rejoicing on the election of the Pope; it is also the year of jubilee, or Holy Year.”
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“we think it necessary Sukey [his wife] should have it, as her other Cloaths are mostly improper for her to wear”
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“Richard Copley was in poor health on his arrival in America and went to the West Indies to improve his failing strength. He died there in 1737.”
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1914· 1 entry
It appears that in 1768 Copley painted in Boston a portrait of Myles Cooper, president of King's College, who then urged his visiting New York
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1836· 1 entry
And kept the ownership of many of the artist's unsold pictures until March 5, 1864, when they were sold at auction in London
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1815· 1 entry
Died 1815-09-09.
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1813· 1 entry
“he cannot apply himself as closely as he used to do.”
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1812· 1 entry
Wrote: "I am still pursuing my profession in the hope that, at a future time, a proper amount will be realized from my works, either to myself or family, but at this moment all pursuits which are not among the essenti
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1811· 1 entry
“I am still pursuing my profession in the hope that, at a future time, a proper amount will be realized from my works, either to myself or family, but at this moment all pursuits which are not among the essentials of life are at a stand”
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1810· 2 entries
Had a bad fall which kept him from painting for a month
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“Your father has been led to feel this affair [his unsuccessful litigation to recover the”
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1791· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1791).
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1738· 1 entry
Born 1738-07-03.
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