John Singleton Copley (circa July 3 1738 - September 9 1815) was a Boston-born American artist of the colonial period, famous for his portraits of important figures in colonial New England, particularly men and women of the middle class. His portraits were innovative in that they tended to portray their subjects with artifacts that were indicative of their lives. Wikipedia
Overview John Singleton Copley, the foremost artist in colonial America, was virtually self-taught as a portraitist. www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg60b/gg60b-main1.html
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