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JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY (1737—1815)

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

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