John Singleton Copley

John Singleton Copley was a male artist, painter, and printmaker born in Boston in 1738 and died in London in 1815. A citizen of the British Empire, he worked in both Boston and London. His artistic output included portrait painting and history painting, often associated with the realism movement. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Academy of Arts, receiving the award of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

His notable works include Watson and the Shark, The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781, and A Boy with a Flying Squirrel (Henry Pelham). Copley had a child named John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst, and a sibling named Henry Pelham. His works are held in the collections of the Belvedere, Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. He is described in sources such as the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition and Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. He was buried in the London Borough of Croydon.