Artist outgrew his homeland but wasn't the same abroad. (John Singleton Copley, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts)

From: Insight on the News | Date: June 12, 1995| Author: Bell, Judith | Copyright information

'John Singleton Copley in America' shows why Copley was the must successful painter in the US prior to the American Revolution. However, his work suffered after he went to England in 1774. His early paintings, done mostly in cool colors, exhibited much realism.

In 1766, an American sea captain brought Joshua Reynolds, the great English painter and president of the Royal Academy of Arts, a canvas he had ferried across the Atlantic. The painter, Reynolds was told, was 28 and had neve...

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