John Singleton Copley Prints
1738–1815 · American · Colonial American
Wall art by John Singleton Copley, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
8 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About John Singleton Copley
John Singleton Copley was born in Boston in July 1738, the son of Irish tobacconists, and learned painting from his stepfather, the engraver Peter Pelham, and from prints; by his early twenties he was the finest painter in colonial America, with no rival within three thousand miles. His portraits of Boston merchants, their wives and the silversmith Paul Revere are plain, intensely lifelike pictures of satin, mahogany and faces. In 1774, as the Revolution neared, he left for London, never to return. There he turned to history painting on a grand scale: Watson and the Shark of 1778, a boy rescued from a shark in Havana harbour, and The Death of Major Peirson drew paying crowds. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1779 and died in London in September 1815. His Boston portraits print as handsome, dignified pictures for a study, dining room or hallway.