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Copley was born on Boston’s Long Wharf on July 3, 1738, to tobacco store proprietor Richard Copley and his wife Mary Singleton, immigrants who recently arrived from Ireland. After John’s father passed away, his mother remarried to a Peter Pelham, who was a mezzotint engraver, artist, and schoolteacher.
John Singleton Copley was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was probably born in Boston, Massachusetts, 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.
John Singleton Copley par Gilbert Stuart. John est le fils de Richard Copley, un vendeur de tabac originaire d'Irlande, et de Mary Singleton Copley qui devient veuve avant 1748 et épousera le graveur Peter Pelham.
Pelham, Henry (1749–1806), miniaturist, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Peter Pelham (1697–1751), mezzotint engraver, and his third wife Mary Singleton Copley. She was the widow of Richard Copley and mother of the distinguished American artist and miniaturist John Singleton Copley (1738–1815), RA .
John Singleton Copley (født 3. juli 1738, død 9. september 1815) var en amerikansk maler som er særlig kjent for sine portretter av overklassen i New England . Hans foreldre var Richard and Mary Singleton Copley som antagelig var bosatte i Boston da han ble født. Eter hans far døde giftet moren seg på nytt med gravøren Peter Pelham som ...
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John Singleton Copley unexpectedly illuminated America’s colonial sky. The child of poor uncultured parents and only briefly the stepson of artist Peter Pelham, he became by 1760, as if by Providence, the colonies’ supreme artist, a position he retained until his departure for London in 1774.
