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.
ID: 79054 Mrs. Isaac Smith "Mrs. Isaac Smith (Elizabeth Storer) (1726-1786)," oil on canvas, by the American artist John Singleton Copley. Mrs. Isaac Smith was painted along with her husband in the portraits of 1769, among the finest of Copley's portraiture. Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896, L.H.D. 1938. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date 1769(1769)
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