American Colonial Era Painter, 1738-1815
John Singleton Copley (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. Related Paintings of John Singleton Copley :. | Mary and Elizabeth Royall | Portrait of Nathaniel Sparhawk od Kittery Point | watson and the shark | Portrait of Admiral Clark Gayton | James Warren | Related Artists: Eugen Kohlhauer painted Dreimastbark unter vollen Segeln in 1898 Emma Minnie Boyd Australian Painter, 1858-1936 Thomas Craskell painted Knowles action off Havana in1758.