The artistic opportunities of the home and town in which Copley grew to manhood should be emphasized because he himself, as well as some of his biographers taking him too literally, have made much of the bleakness of his early surroundings.

Copley in his letters to West of October 13 and November 12, 1766 gleefully accepted the invitation to send other pictures to the Exhibition and mournfully referred to himself as " peculiarly unlucky in Liveing in a place into which there has not been one portrait brought that is worthy to be call'd a Picture within my memory.

He felt himself victimized when he learned that the purchasers knew of a project of building the Massachusetts State House at the top of the hill, and he sent his son John Singleton Copley, Jr., then at the beginning of his brilliant legal career, to Boston in 1796 seeking to annul the arrangement.

" The subject of his grievance frequently recurs in the family correspondence, but it is not certain that Copley had any reason to feel himself defrauded.

In August 1813, Mrs. Copley wrote that, although her husband was still painting, " he cannot apply himself as closely as he used to do.

Thus, as Copley observes, at the outset of his career as a composer Heseltine found in song-writing a dynamic ambience, " within which he could express himself, or against which he could react ".

The following morning, Reds publicist and traveling secretary Gabe Paul called Hershberger's room at the Copley Plaza Hotel and relayed a message from Bill McKechnie that he wasn't going to play that afternoon and needn't even put on his uniform ; McKechnie likely wanted to give Hershberger time away from the ballpark to collect himself emotionally, but Hershberger said he would be there.

A letter from Copley was subsequently delivered to him.

West got the canvas into the Exhibition of the year and wrote, on August 4, 1766, a letter to Copley in which he referred to Sir Joshua Reynolds's interest in the work and advised the artist to follow his example by making " a viset to Europe for this porpase ( of self-improvement ) for three or four years.

" Copley's personal appearance was thus described by his uncharitable comrade: " Very thin, a little pock-marked a souvenir of the Boston smallpox epidemic described by Copley in a letter of January 24, 1764, prominent eyebrows, small eyes, which after fatigue seemed a day's march in his head.

In an open letter Chambers accused Copley of purveying his picture like a " raree-show " and of aiming for " either the sale of prints or the raffle of the picture.

How deep into debt Copley had fallen in his latest years was hinted at in Mrs. Copley's letter of February 1, 1816, to Gardiner Greene in which she gave details of his assets and borrowings and predicted: " When the whole property is disposed of and applied toward the discharge of the debts a large deficiency must, it is feared, remain.

However the Americans Copley and Benjamin West led the artists who successfully showed that trousers could be used in heroic scenes, with works like West's The Death of General Wolfe ( 1770 ) and Copley's The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781 ( 1783 ), although the trouser was still being carefully avoided in The Raft of the Medusa, completed in 1819.

Prior to this marriage of his daughter, Copley had sold his Beacon Hill estate to a syndicate of speculators headed by Dr. Benjamin Joy.

* Copley Medal: Benjamin Brodie

* Copley Medal: Benjamin Thompson

* Copley Medal: Benjamin Robins

* Copley Medal: Benjamin Franklin

* Copley Medal: Benjamin Wilson

The Death of General Wolfe ( 1771 ) by Benjamin West, The Death of Captain James Cook ( 1779 ) by Johann Zoffany, The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 and The Death of Major Pierson ( 1784 ) by John Singleton Copley are leading examples of the new type, which ignored complaints about the unsuitability of modern dress for heroic subjects.

The most successful history painters, who were not afraid of buttons and wigs, were both Americans settled in London: Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, though one of his most successful works Watson and the Shark ( 1778 ) was able to mostly avoid them, showing a rescue from drowning.

These include Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Canaletto, Johann Zoffany, John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, and James McNeill Whistler.

A similar project had been started a few years earlier by Edward Akroyd at Copley, also in West Yorkshire.

Copley is a village in the metropolitan borough of Calderdale, in the county of West Yorkshire, England, south of Halifax and east of Sowerby Bridge, by the River Calder and the Calder and Hebble Navigation.

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* Copley, West Yorkshire

Richard Copley, described as a tobacconist, is said by several biographers to have arrived in Boston in ill health and to have gone, about the time of John's birth, to the West Indies, where he died.

James Bernard Cullen says: " Richard Copley was in poor health on his arrival in America and went to the West Indies to improve his failing strength.

" West wrote, on January 6, 1773: " My Advice is, Mrs. Copley to remain in Boston till you have made this Tour Italy, After which, if you fix your place of reasidanc in London, Mrs. Copley to come over.

" “ In England, what West and Copley did together was to create a new kind of history painting, one with modern, topical subjects, chiefly death scenes of heroes, in a historic manner, but with scrupulous attention to contemporary detail ” ( Johnson 441 ) The American was duly introduced to Sir Joshua Reynolds and was taken to " the Royal where the Students had a naked model from which they were Drawing.

Following a fashion set by West and others, Copley began to paint historical pieces as well as portraits.

The bank said that the power failure occurred at an IT centre in Copley, West Yorkshire which caused several problems for Halifax's banking system.

* Copley, West Yorkshire-( 1874 )

He was born in Birmingham, West Midlands, son of Ernest Harold Copley and Lilian Forbes, and attended King Edward VI Five Ways.

More recently, a biography entitled Black Tom has been written by Terence Copley.

The Catholic returned exile and conspirator Anthony Copley had also written to Blackwell about the Bye Plot ; he was Sir Thomas Copley's son and therefore Gage's brother-in-law.

Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding ( November 22, 1787 – March 3, 1855 ), commonly called Copley Fielding, was an English painter born in Sowerby, near Halifax and famous for his watercolour landscapes.

* November 22 – Copley Fielding, painter ( died 1855 )

Lobbying brought Darwin Britain's highest scientific honour, the Royal Society ’ s Copley Medal, awarded on 3 November 1864.

On 25 November 2007, Norris proposes to Doreen Fenwick ( Barbara Young ) before he found out that both George Trench ( Keith Barron ) and Ivor Priestley ( Paul Copley ) had also proposed to her.

A couple of months later, on Thursday 16 November 1972, the official opening took place, performed by Professor Dorothy Hodgkin ( 1910 – 1994 ), Chancellor of the University of Bristol from 1970 till 1988, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 and the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 1976.