John singleton copley

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American Paintings: St. Cecilia, a Portrait (Mrs. Richard Crowninshield Derby) by John Singleton Copley (1803)

John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)

Possibly one of the most iconic images of a woman of the Georgian era wearing a riding habit has to be that of Lady Seymour Worsley. So, with that in mind, we thought we would take a look at this f…

The unusual pet in John Singleton Copley’s portrait of his stepbrother might not have phased 18th-century viewers but leaves this writer with many questions.

Copley painted this portrait of his step-niece ten years after he fled the chaos of revolutionary Boston to settle in London. With its striking, windswept sitter; dramatic background of whites, blues, yellows, and reds; and vigorous brushwork and ridges of impasto, the portrait shows how fully Copley embraced the ideals of high-style British portraiture. It shows a confidence and freedom that is absent in the more direct and methodical works he made in New England. This portrait is tied to a…

John Singleton Copley began his extraordinary transnational painting career in his late teens. Before he and his family left for London in 1775, Copley created luxurious likenesses of prominent Anglo-colonials in Boston. He combined detailed renderings of faces and garments with invented settings to aggrandize the wealth and status of the sitters’ families. In 1766, Copley was commissioned to paint portraits of the Boylston family. In this portrait of Nicholas Boylston, the sitter is shown…