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[John Singleton Copley] – Vintage Print

[John Singleton Copley] — historic print
[John Singleton Copley]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[John Singleton Copley]

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John Singleton Copley, the Boston-born painter, is the figure this print puts at its center, and his name is the one detail the record gives us beyond the medium. Copley (1738 to 1815) became one of colonial America's most accomplished portraitists, known for lifelike sitters painted with close attention to fabric, skin and light. Before the Revolution he worked mainly in Boston, then moved to London in 1774, where he spent the rest of his career. Because the caption card lists no date, the exact year of this impression is uncertain, but prints of his portraits were widely circulated in the nineteenth century.

Medium1 print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,294 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-118573

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