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

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