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John Singleton Copley

[American Colonial Era Painter, 1738-1815]

• Relationships: Stepson of Peter Pelham from 1848 until Pelham's death in 1851.
Studied under Benjamin West.
Copley's students included Henry Sargent.
• Subject matter:  Specializes in Portraits.
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
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4 works by John Singleton Copley online

Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Mrs. Daniel Rea and Child, 1757

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
Sarah Sherburne Langdon, 1767
Woodbury Langdon, 1767

John Singleton Copley at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
4 portraits online

John Singleton Copley at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
38 works by John Singleton Copley online

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
Mrs. Nathaniel Allen, ca.1763

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Drawings collection online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

John Singleton Copley at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
19 works by John Singleton Copley

John Singleton Copley at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Excellent exhibit built around Watson and the Shark

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Mrs. James Russell (Katherine Graves), ca.1770

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Sir William Pepperrell and His Family, 1778

The Royal Collection, London, UK
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Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  
Isaac Smith

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  
Mrs. Isaac Smith (Elizabeth Storer)

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Nathaniel Hurd

Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick

Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)   NEW!
Portrait of Thomas Flucker, ca.1770-71

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
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Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Thomas Greene

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Mrs. John Greene
Nathaniel Hurd
A Hussar Officer on Horseback
Mrs. Anna Dummer Powell


Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Thomas Amory II

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
9 works by or related to the artist

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
2 works online

Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Portrait of Captain John Small

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Portrait of Mrs. Jabez Bowen (Sara Brown)

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High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Portrait of Elizabeth Deering Wentworth Gould Rogers, ca.1765

John Singleton Copley in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Elizabeth Allen Stevens, ca.1757

Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design
Portrait of Theodore Atkinson, Jr. (image 16)

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK

John Singleton Copley at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Portrait of John Winthrop

National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Lydia Lynde, ca.1762-64

Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts
Portrait of Sarah Erving Waldo, ca.1765

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Portrait of John Scollay

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Robert 'King' Hooper

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mifflin

Royal Academy of Arts Online Catalogue
The Tribute Money, 1782

Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts

John Singleton Copley at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Terra Foundation for the Arts, Chicago
Portrait of Mrs. John Stevens, 1770-72
Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Dress, 1763

The Huntington Library, California
Sarah Jackson, ca.1765

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Mrs. Thomas Gage

Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
Young Lady with a Bird and Dog
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Portrait of a Lady (Mrs. Seymour Fort)

Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Mrs. Daniel Rogers

Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
2 works online

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
John Bours
Lucretia Chandler Murray (Mrs. John Murray)
Sarah Tyler Savage (Mrs. Samuel Phillips Savage)


Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
John Bours, ca.1765-70

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 
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113 works online by Copley

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Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Jersey Heritage Trust, UK
Biography of the artist

  
 
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Henry Pelham, Boy with a Squirrel, 1765
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John Singleton Copley: Young Lady with a Bird and Dog
Young Lady with a Bird and Dog

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