page_title: John Singleton Copley
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: John Singleton Copley / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Ann Fairchild Bowler, wife of Newport, Rhode Island merchant and politician Metcalf Bowler.
context_page_description: John Singleton Copley RA was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was probably born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. After becoming well-established as a portrait painter of the wealthy in colonial New England, he moved to London in 1774, never returning to America. In London, he met considerable success as a portraitist for the next two decades, and also painted a number of large history paintings, which were innovative in their readiness to depict modern subjects and modern dress. His later years were less successful, and he died heavily in debt.
caption: Portrait of Ann Fairchild Bowler (1758)
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