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Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 3 July 1738
- Died
- 9 September 1815
- Place of birth
- Boston
- Place of death
- London
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Copley
- Father
- Richard Copley
- Mother
- Mary Singleton
- Spouse
- Susannah Farnum Clarke
- Sibling
- Henry Pelham
- Movement
- realism
- Field of work
- visual arts
- Occupation
- artist, painter, miniature painter, pastellist, printmaker
- Citizenship
- British Empire
- Native language
- English
- artist files at
- Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, Frick Art Research Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- catalogue raisonné
- John Singleton Copley
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The American Cyclopædia
- different from
- John Copley
- has works in the collection
- Belvedere, Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Tate, National Gallery of Art, Australian National Maritime Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jersey Museum and Art Gallery, National Galleries Scotland, Royal Museums Greenwich, National Gallery
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- name in native language
- John Singleton Copley
- notable work
- Watson and the Shark, The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781, The Death of the Earl of Chatham, A Boy with a Flying Squirrel (Henry Pelham), Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton. Soldier; Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire, Portrait of Mrs. Theodore Atkinson Jr., Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Gage, General Thomas Gage, Mrs Humphrey Devereux, Dr. Silvester Gardiner, William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Portrait of Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
- place of burial
- London Borough of Croydon
- relative
- Gardiner Greene
- significant person
- Peter Pelham
- topic's main category
- Category:John Singleton Copley
Connected on Wikidata
Creator of
- Watson and the Shark
- A Boy with a Flying Squirrel (Henry Pelham)
- The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781
- Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Gage
- The Death of the Earl of Chatham
- Portrait of Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
- Dr. Silvester Gardiner
- John Adams (1735-1826)
- The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782
- Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton. Soldier; Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire
- The Copley Family
- Portrait of Henry Laurens
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