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John Singleton Copley ( 1738 – 1815 ) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts, and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish.

He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New England, depicting in particular middle-class subjects.

His paintings were innovative in their tendency to depict artifacts relating to these individuals ' lives.