Tour: John Singleton Copley (American, 1738-1815)

Overview | Start Tour
1	2	3
4	5	6

»	next
«	back to American painting

Overview

John Singleton Copley, the foremost artist in colonial America, was virtually self-taught as a portraitist. By meticulously recording details, he created powerful characterizations of his Boston sitters. After he emigrated to London in 1774, Copley began to specialize in narrative scenes from history and joined the influential artistic institution, the Royal Academy of Art. Copley demonstrated a genius, in both his American and British periods, for rendering surface textures and capturing emotional immediacy.

Captions

1.
1	John Singleton Copley, Jane Browne, 1756
2	John Singleton Copley, Epes Sargent, c. 1760
3	John Singleton Copley, Anne Fairchild Bowler (Mrs. Metcalf Bowler), c. 1763
4	John Singleton Copley, Elizabeth Gray Otis (Mrs. Samuel Alleyne Otis), c. 1764
5	John Singleton Copley, Eleazer Tyng, 1772
6	John Singleton Copley, Abigail Smith Babcock (Mrs. Adam Babcock), c. 1774
2.
7	John Singleton Copley, The Copley Family, 1776/1777
8	John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778
9	John Singleton Copley, The Death of the Earl of Chatham, 1779
10	John Singleton Copley, The Red Cross Knight, 1793
11	John Singleton Copley, Colonel William Fitch and His Sisters Sarah and Ann Fitch, 1800/1801
12	John Singleton Copley, Baron Graham, 1804