Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley
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Detail of ‘Mrs. Daniel Sargent (Mary Turner)’ by John Singleton Copley, c. 1763.
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1803 John Singleton Copley - St. Cecilia, a portrait (Mrs. Richard Crowninshield Derby)
(Mint Museum)
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John Singleton Copley (1738 – 1815)
Watson and the Shark, 1778,(detail upside-down).
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Mrs. Benjamin Hallowell, 1766 or 1767
John Singleton Copley
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John Singleton Copley
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Oil painting, 1785, British.
By John Singleton Copley.
Portraying Princess Mary, Princess Amelia, and Princess Sophia.
Royal Collection Trust.
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Thaddeus Burr
John Singleton Copley (American; 1738–1815)
1758–60
Oil on canvas
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
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Elizabeth Gray Otis by John Singleton Copley, c. 1764
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Fitzjames' grandfather
Vice Admiral James Gambier (1723-1789)
Painting by John Singleton Copley, 1773. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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John Singleton Copley (American, 1738 – 1815) • Mrs Daniel Denison Rogers (Abigail Bromfield) • c. 1784
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John Singleton Copley - Self-Portrait
John Singleton Copley RA (1738 – 1815) 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.
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The first step in going to sea on the long voyage which a boy hoped would eventually reach a landmark when he hoisted his flag as an admiral began with a captain or admiral granting a favour by agreeing to take a particular boy to sea with him. Until 1794 the boy would be described in the ship’s book as ‘captain’s servant’; after 1794 an Admiralty ruling named such boys ‘young gentlemen intended for sea service’.
This meant that as the war began most midshipmen had started off as ‘captain’s servants’, but because of the obliqueness of bureaucracy this does not mean that they were servants of the captain. The captain had servants paid by the Admiralty and the number was laid down by regulation. [...] These boys could be anyone ranging from the captain’s son or nephew to the eager offspring of a friend. Some captains were not above taking along a tradesman’s son in return for not being pressed over a large bill.
— Dudley Pope, Life in Nelson’s Navy
Captain Sir Edward Berry (1768-1831) in Royal Navy captain’s undress uniform (over three years' seniority) of the 1812–25 pattern, painted by John Singleton Copley c. 1815.
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ab. 1764 John Singleton Copley - Portrait of Mrs. Samuel Hill (Miriam Kilby)
(Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum)
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