John Singleton Copley
BIRTH
Jul 3, 1738
Boston, Massachusetts
DEATH
September 9, 1815
London, England
FAMILY
FATHER:
Richard Copley
(1708-1745)
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Copley, John Singleton
(1738-1815)
John Singleton Copley was colonial America's leading portrait painter, preserving the likenesses of many figures on both sides of the imperial crisis. He left Boston for Europe in 1774 and spent the Revolutionary era in Britain.
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WIFE
Sussanna Farnum Clarke Copley
(1745-1836)
John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst
(1772-1863)
Mary Copley
(1842-1929)
Elizabeth Copley
(1865-?)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Boston Common | 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111 | PARK |
DIED:
London, England
Sep 9, 1815
John Singleton Copley was born on Jul 3, 1738 in Boston, Massachusetts. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies John Singleton Copley with work or public activity as a painter. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. John Singleton Copley died on Sep 9, 1815 in London, England. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.