When did John Singleton Copley live?

John Singleton Copley lived from 1738 to 1815.

What movement was John Singleton Copley part of?

John Singleton Copley was part of the Rococo painting movement.

How many John Singleton Copley paintings are in the archive?

There are 43 paintings by John Singleton Copley in the Artifact World Gallery archive.

Where can I see paintings by John Singleton Copley?

Paintings by John Singleton Copley are held by Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Gallery of Art.

John Singleton Copley · Artifact World Gallery

American, 1738–1815

John Singleton Copley was an American Rococo painting painter. 140 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Fine Arts Boston, most of them oil paintings. John Singleton Copley was born in Boston.

John Singleton Copley (July 3, 1738 – September 9, 1815) was an American-born British painter active in both the Thirteen Colonies and England. He is believed to have been born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. After becoming well-established as a portrait painter of the wealthy in colonial New England, he moved to London in 1774, never returning to America.

In London, he met considerable success as a portraitist for the next two decades, and also painted a number of large history paintings, which were innovative in their readiness to depict modern subjects and modern dress. His later years were less successful, and he died heavily in debt. He was father of John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst and half-brother of Henry Pelham, the American painter, engraver, and cartographer.