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 :. | Young lady with a Bird and dog | Mrs Benjamin Pickman | Samuel Adams | Watson und der Hai | Watson and the Shark (1778) depicts the rescue of Brook Watson from a shark attack in Havana, Cuba. |
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