John Singleton Copley (1738 – 1815)
• Was an Anglo-American painter.
England.
• Copley's mother owned a tobacco shop on Long Wharf.
• Except for a family tradition that speaks of his precocity in drawing, nothing is known of Copley's schooling.
• His son, Lord Lyndhurst, wrote that "he (Copley) was entirely self taught.
• Copley himself complained, in a letter to Benjamin West, written November 12, 1766: "In this Country as You rightly observe there is no examples of Art, except what is to met with in a few prints indifferently exicuted, from which it is not possable to learn much."
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