John Singleton Copley

Copley paints colonial Americans with startling directness — plain dark grounds, polished mahogany and silk, a sitter's tools in hand; later, huge dramas of shipwreck and rescue.

John Singleton Copley (1738–1815) was a painter from United States, associated with Neoclassicism.

More Neoclassicism painters: Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Joshua Reynolds, François Gérard.