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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Head of a Negro


Handmade oil painting reproduction of Head of a Negro, c.1777-78, a painting by John Singleton Copley

John Singleton Copley: born 1737 - died 1815
was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish. He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New England, depicting in particular middle-class subjects. His paintings were innovative in their tendency to depict artifacts relating to these individuals' lives.

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