Letters and Papers of John Singleton Copley and Henry Pelham, 1739–1776. [Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, vol. LXXI.] (Boston: The Massachusetts Historical Society. 1914. Pp. xxii, 384.)

1915 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Society ◽  
John Singleton ◽  
John Singleton Copley

West, Copley, and Eighteenth-Century American Provincialism

1983 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-416
Author(s):  
Joseph Allard
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
American Art ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Study Tour ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Art Historians ◽  
Common Notion ◽  
American Painting ◽  
John Singleton ◽  
John Singleton Copley

It is a common notion that American painting in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was derivative and provincial. It was an artistic period marked by failure and frustration during which the promising artist, usually after a study tour in Europe, was met with indifference or misunderstanding. He either just managed to scrape a living, often by having to compromise his talents in search of an audience, or was forced to abandon painting altogether and turn to other pursuits. The only successful American painters, in this view, were those who became established in Europe; and they somehow no longer seem to be American. The best of the group were Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, whose European careers have been consistently misunderstood, until very recently, through geographical and historical myopia. European art historians have given them short shrift because they were, after all, provincial painters with the good fortune to practise in a European capital. American art historians have neglected their European work because (from the American point of view) it was English art they practised.

Book Review: John Singleton Copley in America

1996 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-335
Author(s):  
Richard H Saunders
Keyword(s):  
John Singleton ◽  
John Singleton Copley

John Singleton Copley

1949 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Richard E. Amacher ◽  
James Thomas Flexner
Keyword(s):  
John Singleton ◽  
John Singleton Copley

John Singleton Copley

1948 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
John Fabian Kienitz ◽  
James Thomas Flexner
Keyword(s):  
John Singleton ◽  
John Singleton Copley
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