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JONATHAN BLACKBURN (c. 1700-c. 1765)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 20 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JONATHAN
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BLACKBURN (c. 1700-c. 1765)  ,
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American portrait painter, was
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born in
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Connecticut . He seems to have been the son of a painter, and to have had a studio in
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Boston in 1750-1765; among his patrons were many important
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early American families, including the Apthorps, Amorys, Bulfinches, Lowells, Ewings, Saltonstalls, Winthrops, Winslows and Otises of Boston . Some of his portraits are in the
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possession of the public library of
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Lexington,
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Massachusetts, and of the Massachusetts
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Historical Society, but most of them are privately owned and are scattered over the
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country, the
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majority being in Boston .
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John Singleton
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Copley was his
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pupil, and it is said that he finally
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left his studio in Boston, through
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jealousy of Copley's
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superior success . He was a
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good portrait painter, and some of his pictures were
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long attributed to Copley .

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