John Singleton Copley: Portrait of the artist as an Englishman Portrait of the artist as an Englishman - Ideas

Americans have long thought of the Boston-born painter John Singleton Copley as a founding father, one who happened to wield a paintbrush instead of a quill. Among the first great artists born in the colonies, Copley painted portraits of revolutionary-era Bostonians that still serve as our mind’s-eye pictures of the patriots who made the United States.