JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY (1737—1815)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V07,
Page 101
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:JOHN SINGLETON See also:COPLEY (1737—1815)
, See also:English See also:historical painter, was See also:born of Irish parents at See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts
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He was self-educated, and commenced his career as a portrait-painter in his native See also:city
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The germ of his reputation in See also:England was a little picture of a boy and See also:squirrel, exhibited at the Society of Arts in 1760
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In 177,4 he went to See also:Rome, and thence in 1775 came to England
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In 1777 he was admitted See also:associate of the Royal See also:Academy; in 1783 he was made Academician on the See also:exhibition of his most famous picture, the " See also:Death of See also:Chatham," popularized immediately by See also:Bartolozzi's elaborate See also:engraving; and in 1790 he was commissioned to paint a portrait picture of the See also:defence of See also:Gibraltar
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The " Death of See also:Major See also:Pierson," in the See also:National See also:Gallery, also deserves mention
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See also:Copley's See also:powers appear to greatest See also:advantage in his portraits
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He was the See also:father of See also:Lord See also:Chancellor See also:Lyndhurst
.
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