John Singleton Copley (1738-1815)
John S. Copley was one of colonial America’s most important portraitists. He spent his early life in Boston painting the rich, the famous, and the patriotic, including John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Paul Revere. Ironically, the painter of patriots left America for England on the eve of the Revolution. Regardless, both his clientele and his remarkable attention to detail have made Copley’s work some of the most iconic images of 18th-century America.
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