John Singleton Copley
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 :. | Mrs Ezekiel Goldthwait | Head of a Man | Mrs. Alexander Cumming, nee Elizabeth Goldthwaite, later Mrs. John Bacon | Martin Howard | Mrs. Humphrey Devereux, oil on canvas painting by John Singleton Copley, | Related Artists: Bonifacio de Pitatipainted Sacra Conversazione in 1515 Hendrick the Brugghen1588-1629
Dutch painter and draughtsman. He was, with Gerrit van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen, one of the leading painters in the group of artists active in Utrecht in the 1620s who came to be known as the UTRECHT CARAVAGGISTI, since they adapted Caravaggio's subject-matter and style to suit the Dutch taste for religious and secular paintings. Ter Brugghen was an important innovator for later Dutch 17th-century genre painting; his recognition as an unorthodox, PLEYDENWURFF, HansGerman Northern Renaissance Painter, 1420-1472
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