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John Singleton Copley
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| "Captain Sir Edward Berry, 1768-1831," oil on canvas, by the American artist John Singleton Copley. 1422 mm x 1118 mm. Courtesy of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.
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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.
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