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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 suspected 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 564,513 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). John Singleton Copley is the 1,136th most popular painter (down from 1,099th in 2019), the 4,038th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,094th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, John Singleton Copley ranks 1,136 out of 1,421. Before him are Orlan, Alexey Venetsianov, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Charles de La Fosse, Henri Regnault, and Charles Laval. After him are Fritz Bleyl, Ivan Grohar, Ernst Josephson, Li Tang, Abraham van Diepenbeeck, and Paul Renner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1738, John Singleton Copley ranks 19. Before him are William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Arthur Phillip, Jacques François Dugommier, Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Jacques Delille, and Benjamin West. After him are Richard Montgomery, Leopold Hofmann, and Matvey Kazakov. Among people deceased in 1815, John Singleton Copley ranks 23. Before him are Torii Kiyonaga, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, Matthias Claudius, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, Carl Johan Adlercreutz, and Francesco Bartolozzi. After him are William Nicholson, Benjamin Smith Barton, William Roxburgh, Thomas Picton, George Montagu, and John Carroll.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Singleton Copley ranks 4,038 out of 18,182. Before him are Dimebag Darrell (1966), Nick Cravat (1912), Maggie Grace (1983), Jane Kaczmarek (1955), Huey P. Newton (1942), and Judy Chicago (1939). After him are Jennifer Warnes (1947), Harry Langdon (1884), Paul Mazursky (1930), Vincent Gallo (1961), Giovanni Ribisi (1974), and Blake Clark (1946).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, John Singleton Copley ranks 52. Before him are Helen Frankenthaler (1928), Benjamin West (1738), James Turrell (1943), Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847), Ad Reinhardt (1913), and James Rosenquist (1933). After him are George Segal (1924), Joseph Cornell (1903), Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856), Mark Tobey (1890), John Trumbull (1756), and Childe Hassam (1859).

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