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John Singleton Copley (1738-1815)
John Singleton Copley was an American artist of the colonial period, famous for his portraits of important figures in colonial New England. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, his portraits were innovative in that they tended to portray their subjects with artifacts that were indicative of their lives. Copley demonstrated a genius for rendering surface textures and capturing emotional immediacy.
Daniel Rea
Colonel George Lewis
Head of a Negro
Hugh Hall
Verplanck
Nathaniel Allen
Samuel Adams

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Colonel George Lewis (70.560.A)
Object Date 1794  
Dimensions Framed: 37 9/16 x 32 9/16 x 2 3/4 in. (95.41 x 82.71 x 6.99 cm) 30 1/8 x 25 in. 76.5 x 63.5 cm
Medium Oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts
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