Background

Copley, John Singleton was born on July 3, 1738 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Richard and Mary Sarah (Singleton) Copley.

Education

Self-taught, precocious as an artist, famous as painter of history

Career

Artists of Great.

Achievements

• John Singleton Copley has been listed as a notable painter. by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • George IV

  • John Spooner

  • Charles Pelham

  • Paul Revere

  • Mrs.Samuel Quincy

  • Abigail Smith Babcock

  • John, 2nd Viscount Dudley and Ward

  • Painting of Samuel learning from Eli

  • Moses Gill

  • Mrs. John Winthrop (Hannah Fayerweather)

  • John Bours

  • Epes Sargent

  • Thomas Greene

  • Mrs.Woodbury Langdon

  • Mrs.Daniel Hubbard (Mary Greene)

  • Portrait of Joseph Warren

  • Two Equestrian Figures

  • Martin Howard

  • Daniel Crommelin Verplanck

  • Duncan Stewart of Ardsheal

  • Lucretia Hubbard Towsend

  • Portrait of the Salem

  • Mrs.John Scoally (Mercy Greenleaf)

  • Mrs. Sylvanus Bourne

  • Mrs. James Russell (Katherine Graves)

  • Mrs. Anna Dummer Powell

  • Sir William Pepperrell and Family

  • Potrait of Thomas Flucker

  • Midshipman Augustus Brine

  • Ann Tyng

  • The Red Cross Knight

  • Reverend Thomas Cary

  • John Hancock

  • Mrs.Thomas Boylston

  • Mrs.Humphrey Devereux

  • Colonel John Montresor

  • Mrs.John Murray (Lucretia Chandler)

  • Portrait of Elizabeth Deering Wentworth Gould Rogers (also known as Mr. Nathaniel Rogers)

  • The Return of Neptune

  • The Siege and Relief of Gibraltar

  • The Western Brothers

  • Mrs. Thomas Gage

  • Joseph Sherburne

  • Mrs.James Warren (Mercy Otis)

  • Lydia Lynde

  • Portrait of Rebecca Boylston

  • Portrait of Familie Copley

  • John Hancock

  • George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield

  • Governor John Wentworth

  • Portrait of a Gentleman

  • Portrait of Nathaniel Allen

  • Mrs. Roger Morris (Mary Philipse)

  • Mrs. Nathaniel Allen (Sarah Sargnet)

  • Mrs.George Watson (Elizabeth Oliver)

  • Jeremiah Lee

  • Gregory Towsend

  • Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd

  • Head of a Negro

  • Thaddeus Burr

  • Young lady with a bird and dog

  • The Gore Children

  • William Vassall and His Son Leonard

  • Elkanah Watson

  • Eleazer Tyng

  • John Quincy Adams

  • Mary and Elizabeth Royall

  • Samuel Barrington

  • Woodbury Langdon

  • The Nativity

  • Mr.and Mrs.Thomas Mifflin

  • Mrs. William Turner (Ann Dumaresq)

  • Mrs. Joseph Barrell (Hannah Fitch)

  • Mr.and Mrs.Isaac Winslow

  • Samuel Adams

  • Thomas Aston Coffin

  • The Sitwell Family

  • Portrait of Mrs.Gawen Brown

  • Mrs. Isaac Smith

  • Portrait of George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer

  • Mrs.Theodore Atkinson Jr

  • Miles Sherbrook

  • George John, 2nd Earl Spencer

  • The three youngest daughters of George III

  • Mrs. Moses Gill (Rebecca Boylston)

  • Latitia F. Balfour

  • Thomas Amory II

  • Self-portrait

  • Lemuel Cox

  • Mrs.William Eppes

  • Mrs.Clark Gayton

  • Saul Reproved by Samuel for Not Obeying the Commandments of the Lord

  • Mrs.Daniel Denison Rogers

  • Portrait of Mrs. Benjamin Pickman (Mary Toppan)

  • Mrs. Daniel Sargent (Mary Turner Sargent)

  • Baron Graham

  • Gulian Verplanck

  • Mrs.Jeremiah Lee (Martha Swett)

  • Mrs.Richard Skinner

  • Mrs.Epes Sargent

  • Self-portrait

  • Mrs.Ezekiel Gondthwait (Elizabeth Lewis)

  • Portrait of Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton

  • Ebenezer Storer

  • Theodore Atkinson Jr

  • Study for The Siege of Gibraltar

  • Fitch sisters

  • The Death of the Earl of Chatham

  • Portrait of Mrs. George Turner

  • The Forge of Vulcan

  • John Hancock

  • Mrs.Alice Hooper

  • Mrs.Seymour Fort

  • The Tribute Money

  • Watson and the Shark

  • Hugh Hall

  • Portrait of General Thomas Gage

  • Mr.and Mrs.Ralph Izard

  • Eunice Dennie Burr

  • Paul Revere

  • Portrait of a Lady

  • Boy with Squirrel (Henry Pelham)

  • The Major Peirson's Death

  • James Warren

  • Portrait of Mrs.Paul Richard

  • Henry Pelham

  • Anne Erving, Mrs.Duncan Stewart

  • Sylvester Gardiner

  • Richard Heber

  • Study for The Tribute Money

  • Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth

  • Portrait of a Woman

  • Nathaniel Sparhawk

  • Study for The Ascension

  • Isaac Smith

  • Ezekiel Goldthwait

  • Mrs. Samuel Hill

  • Sailors Maneuvering a Cannon

  • The Ascension

  • Dorothy Quincy

  • Epes Sargent II

  • Nicholas Boylston

  • Samuel Verplanck

  • Mrs. Joshua Henshaw II

  • Mrs. Elizabeth Coffin Amory

  • Study for The Siege of Gibraltar, Figures Scaling Floating Battery Cannon

  • Portrait of Mrs. John Stevens (Judith Sargent, later Mr. John Murray)

  • Moses Gill

  • Henry Laurens

  • The Victory of Lord Duncan

  • Elizabeth Goldthwaite (Mrs. Alexander Cumming)

  • Clark Gayton, Admiral of the White

  • Mrs.Elizabeth Coffin Amory

  • Mrs. Ebenezer Storer (Mary Edwards)

  • Mrs. Jerathmael Bowers

  • Charles Cornwallis, First Marquis of Cornwallis

  • Portrait of William Murray

  • Reverend Myles Cooper

  • Rebecca Boylston

Membership

Member Royal Academy, 1775, full.

• Royal Academy

  1775 - 1815

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences , United States

  1791

Connections

Married Mary Susannah Farnum "Sukey" Clarke, November 16, 1769, 4 children.

Mother:

Mary Sarah (Singleton) Copley

References

• John Singleton Copley in America
• A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
• John Singleton Copley in England
• John Singleton Copley
• John Singleton Copley
• John Singleton Copley and Turkish Fashion in 18th-Century America
• John Singleton Copley 1738-1815
• The World of Copley: 1738-1815