Neoclassicism and Romanticism

 

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John Singleton Copley



 

John Singleton Copley

(b ?Boston, 3 July 1738; d London, 9 Sept 1815).

American painter. He was the greatest American artist of the Colonial period, active as a portrait painter in Boston from 1753 to 1774. After a year of study in Italy and following the outbreak of the American Revolution, in 1775 he settled in London, where he spent the rest of his life, continuing to paint portraits and making his reputation as a history painter.

 

Mary MacIntosh Royall and Elizabeth Royall
1758
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston