John Singleton Copley Gallery
Mrs. Nathaniel Allen   
Date:   about 1763   
Medium:   oil on canvas   
Dimensions:   H.49-1/2 x W.40 in.   
Owner:   The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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Daniel Rea
Colonel George Lewis
Head of a Negro
Hugh Hall
Verplanck
Nathaniel Allen
Samuel Adams

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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.
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