John Singleton Copley

(1738–1815) amerikansk konstnär

John Singleton Copley (1738–1815) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, John Singleton Copley belongs to the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’ in this site’s history of art.

John Singleton Copley was born in Boston and died in London. John Singleton Copley worked in Boston and London. Wikidata associates John Singleton Copley with realism. John Singleton Copley became a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Royal Academy of Arts. John Singleton Copley was awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The best-known works include ‘Watson and the Shark’, ‘The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781’, ‘The Death of the Earl of Chatham’, and ‘A Boy with a Flying Squirrel (Henry Pelham)’. The works belong mainly to the genres portrait painting and history painting. The catalogue has 250 works by John Singleton Copley with free images. The dated works span the years 1749–1850. Works by John Singleton Copley are held by several collections, among them Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums, and National Gallery of Art. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include José del Castillo, Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, David Martin, Johann Eleazar Zeissig, and Louis Gustave Taraval.

• Neoclassicism
• Watson and the Shark
• A Boy with a Flying Squirrel (Henry Pelham)
• The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781