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NAME: John Singleton Copley
OCCUPATION: Painter
BIRTH DATE: July 03, 1738
DEATH DATE: September 09, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH: Boston, Massachusetts
PLACE OF DEATH: London, England

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John Singleton Copley was an American painter of portraits and historical subjects. He is generally acclaimed as the finest artist of colonial America.

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John Singleton Copley was born July 3, 1738 in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1766 he exhibited Boy with a Squirrel at the Society of Artists in London. When political and economic conditions in Boston began to deteriorate (Copley's father-in-law was the merchant to whom the tea that provoked the Boston Tea Party was consigned), Copley left the country in June 1774 and established a home in England.

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