The Copley Family

Painting by John Singleton Copley

The Copley Family

Artist| John Singleton Copley
Year| 1777
Type| Oil on canvas, portrait painting
Dimensions| 184.1 cm × 229.2 cm (72.5 in × 90.2 in)
Location| National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

The Copley Family is a 1777 oil on canvas portrait painting by the American artist John Singleton Copley.[1] A group portrait, it features a self-portrait of the artist with his wife Susanna and children and his father-in-law Richard Clarke, an Loyalist merchant.[2]

The Boston-born Copley settled in Britain shortly after the outbreak of the American War of Independence. He became known for his large modern history paintings such as The Death of Lord Chatham, The Death of Major Pierson and The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar.

The work was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1777 at Pall Mall in London.[3] Today the painting is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, having once belonged to the artist's son Lord Lyndhurst, a British lawyer and politician and one of the sitters in the painting.[4]

## References

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1. ^ Kamensky p.361
2. ^ Prown p.92
3. ^ Kamensky p.361-62
4. ^ "The Copley Family by John Singleton Copley".

## Bibliography

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* Hoock, Holger. Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750–1850. Profile Books, 2010.
* Kamensky, Jane. A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.
* Prown, Jules David. John Singleton Copley: In England, 1774–1815. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966.

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John Singleton Copley

Paintings|

* Portrait of Mrs. Theodore Atkinson Jr. (c. 1765)
* A Boy with a Flying Squirrel (1765)
* Portrait of Thomas Gage (1768)
* Mrs. Thomas Gage (1771)
* Mrs Humphrey Devereux (1771)
* Dr. Silvester Gardiner (1772)
* The Copley Family (1777)
* Watson and the Shark (1778, 1782)
* Portrait of Hugh Montgomerie (1780)
* The Death of the Earl of Chatham (1781)
* The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781 (1783)
* Portrait of Lord Mansfield (1783)
* The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 (1791)
* Portrait of Henry Addington (1798)
* The Battle of Camperdown (1799)

Legacy|

* Copley Square
* statue
* Copley Square Hotel
* Mercury crater

Related|

* John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst (son)
* Henry Pelham (half-brother)
* Peter Pelham (stepfather)

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