Painter: Copley John Singleton Part 2

Colonel Fitch and His Sisters. 1800-1801. Oil on canvas.


Daniel Crommelin Verplanck. 1771. Oil on canvas.125.7 x 101.6 cm. The Metropolitan Museum. USA


Duncan Stewart of Ardsheal. 1767. Oil on canvas. 128 x 104 cm. National Gallery


Eleazer Tyng. 1772. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.


John Singleton Copley (clic here Wiki) (1738^[1] – 1815) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish. He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New England, depicting in particular middle-class subjects. His paintings were innovative in their tendency to depict artifacts relating to these individuals' lives.


Epes Sargent. c. 1760. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA


John Singleton Copley (clic aqui Wiki) (alrededor del 3 de julio de 1738 — 9 de septiembre de 1815) fue un artista estadounidense famoso por sus retratos de figuras importantes de la Nueva Inglaterra colonial, en particular hombres y mujeres de clase media. Sus retratos fueron innovadores en que tendían a mostrar a los sujetos con objetos que aportaban información sobre sus vidas.