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Winston-Salem, NC 27116
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Museums page for John Singleton Copley ((1738 - 1815)), known for Portrait, historical, genre and religious painting. Showing 63 museum collections and exhibitions.
John Singleton Copley MUSEUMS
1738 Boston, Massachusetts - 1815 London, England. Known for: Portrait, historical, genre and religious painting.
The crowds who visited the Copley exhibition in Washington and Houston in 1996 were a testimony to the enduring regard in which this artist is still held in his native land. The utterly convincing... Read full biography
The crowds who visited the Copley exhibition in Washington and Houston in 1996 were a testimony to the enduring regard in which this artist is still held in his native land. The utterly convincing realism of his portraits of wealthy Bostonian merchants and landed gentry in the years before the... Read full biography
The crowds who visited the Copley exhibition in Washington and Houston in 1996 were a testimony to the enduring regard in which this artist is still held in his native land. The utterly convincing realism of his portraits of wealthy Bostonian merchants and landed gentry in the years before the American revolution has secured him a lasting fame, a fact which would no doubt have surprised the artist, who had complained that 'fame cannot be durable where pictures are confined to sitting rooms, and... Read full biography
The crowds who visited the Copley exhibition in Washington and Houston in 1996 were a testimony to the enduring regard in which this artist is still held in his native land. The utterly convincing realism of his portraits of wealthy Bostonian merchants and landed gentry in the years before the American revolution has secured him a lasting fame, a fact which would no doubt have surprised the artist, who had complained that 'fame cannot be durable where pictures are confined to sitting rooms, and regarded only for the resemblance they bear to their originals'. His attention to the minutiae of patterned lace, his polished wood and metal surfaces, brilliant fabrics and lustrous pearls, all rendered with a jeweler's precision, made him hugely... Read full biography
The crowds who visited the Copley exhibition in Washington and Houston in 1996 were a testimony to the enduring regard in which this artist is still held in his native land. The utterly convincing realism of his portraits of wealthy Bostonian merchants and landed gentry in the years before the American revolution has secured him a lasting fame, a fact which would no doubt have surprised the artist, who had complained that 'fame cannot be durable where pictures are confined to sitting rooms, and regarded only for the resemblance they bear to their originals'. His attention to the minutiae of patterned lace, his polished wood and metal surfaces, brilliant fabrics and lustrous pearls, all rendered with a jeweler's precision, made him hugely successful at the time and still remains a tangible symbol of the young colony's materialism and self respect. But Copl... Read full biography
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Museums & Collections (63)
All MuseumsAddison Gallery of American Art
Phillips Academy
Andover, MA 01810-4166Art Institute of Chicago, AIC
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603-6110Boston Athenaeum
10 1/2 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116Buffalo AKG Art Museum
1285 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222Butler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Chrysler Museum of Art
245 West Olney Road
Norfolk, VA 23510Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45202Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
Bentonville, AR 72712Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201Everson Museum Of Art
401 Harrison Street
Community Plaza
Syracuse, NY 13202Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, FAMSF
50 Hagiwara
Tea Garden Drive-Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118Fogg Art Museum: Harvard University Art Museums
Harvard University
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138Helmerich Cntr. for American Research, Gilcrease Museum,Univ. of Tulsa
1400 N. Gilcrease Museum Road
Tulsa, OK 74127-2100High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30309Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
Amherst College
Po Box 5000
Amherst, MA 01002Memorial Art Gallery
University of Rochester
500 University Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607-1415Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
1934 Poplar Avenue, Overton Park
Memphis, TN 38104-2765Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts
21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404Munson
310 Genesee Street
Utica, NY 13502Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Paseo del Prado, 8
Madrid, SpainMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet
Po Box 6826
Houston, TX 77005National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
750 Ninth Street NW, Suite 410
Washington, DC 20001New Britain Museum of American Art
56 Lexington Street
New Britain, CT 06052New York Graphic Society
129 Glover St.
Norwalk, CT 06850New-York Historical Society
2 West 77th Street At Central Park
New York City, NY 10024Newfields
4000 Michigan Road
Indianapolis, IN 46208-4196North Carolina Museum of Art
2110 Blue Ridge Road
Mail To 4630 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-4630Peabody Essex Museum
East India Square
161 Essex Square
Salem, MA 01970Phoenix Art Museum
1625 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85004-1685R W Norton Art Gallery
4747 Creswell Ave.
Shreveport, LA 71106Saint Louis Art Museum
Forest Park
One Fine Arts Drive
St. Louis, MO 63110San Antonio Museum of Art
200 West Jones Avenue
San Antonio, TX 78215-1406Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101-2476Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Edinburgh, United KingdomShelburne Museum
6000 Shelburne Road
P.O. Box 10
Shelburne, VT 05482Smith College Museum of Art
20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton, MA 01063Spencer Museum of Art
University of Kansas
1301 Mississippi Street
Lawrence, KS 66045-7500Tate Britain
Millbank
London, United KingdomThe Art Museum, Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1018The Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-1797The Columbus Museum (COMU)
1251 Wynnton Road
Columbus, GA 31906The Currier Museum of Art
201 Myrtle Way
Manchester, NH 03104The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102The Philbrook Museum of Art
2727 South Rockford Road
P.O. Box 52510
Tulsa, OK 74152-0510The Toledo Museum of Art
2445 Monroe Street
Box 1013
Toledo, OH 43697Timken Museum of Art
1500 El. Prado
Balboa Park
San Diego, CA 92101Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
600 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103-2990Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014Williams College Museum of Art
15 Lawrence Hall Drive
Williamstown, MA 01267Worcester Art Museum
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609-3196Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271