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John Singleton Copley

1738 - 1815

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John Singleton Copley (July 3, 1738 – September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was believed to be born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. After becoming well-established as a portrait painter of the wealthy in colonial New England, he moved to London in 1774, never returning to America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Singleton Copley has received more than 609,631 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). John Singleton Copley is the 1,413th most popular painter (down from 1,135th in 2019), the 4,725th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,027th in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, John Singleton Copley ranks 1,413 out of 2,023. Before him are Pál Szinyei Merse, Federico Zandomeneghi, Sigrid Hjertén, Jan Boeckhorst, Józef Mehoffer, and Milena Pavlović-Barili. After him are Maria de Dominici, Kateryna Bilokur, Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin, Ernst Josephson, Ephraim Moses Lilien, and François Marius Granet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1738, John Singleton Copley ranks 23. Before him are Richard Montgomery, Jacques-André Naigeon, Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Jacques Delille, Frederick Augustus, Duke of Nassau, and Leopold Hofmann. After him are Betje Wolff, Matvey Kazakov, and Thomas Nelson Jr.. Among people deceased in 1815, John Singleton Copley ranks 25. Before him are Matthias Claudius, Solomon II of Imereti, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, Carl Johan Adlercreutz, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, and Francesco Bartolozzi. After him are Johann Peter Salomon, William Nicholson, Jakub Jan Ryba, William Roxburgh, Thomas Picton, and George Montagu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Singleton Copley ranks 4,725 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Leckie (1920), Stormy Daniels (1979), William Hoyt (1875), Claudette Colvin (1939), David Geffen (1943), and Bill Goldberg (1966). After him are IShowSpeed (2005), Willie Garson (1964), Peter Revson (1939), Alvan Clark (1804), Paula Patton (1975), and Frederic Clements (1874).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, John Singleton Copley ranks 61. Before him are Martin Johnson Heade (1819), George Segal (1924), Frank Frazetta (1928), John Trumbull (1756), Ellsworth Kelly (1923), and Adolph Gottlieb (1903). After him are George Bellows (1882), Edwin Austin Abbey (1852), Haddon Sundblom (1899), George Catlin (1796), James Rosenquist (1933), and Anna Lea Merritt (1844).

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