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Copley

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Cop·ley  (kpl), John Singleton 1738-1815.
American painter who is known chiefly for his portraits of prominent Americans such as Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Paul Revere, although he lived in England after 1774.
Copley [ˈkɒplɪ]
n
(Biographies / Copley, John Singleton (1738-1815) M, US, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) John Singleton. 1738-1815, US painter
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Noun1.CopleyCopley - American painter who did portraits of Paul Revere and John Hancock before fleeing to England to avoid the American Revolution (1738-1815)
John Copley, John Singleton Copley


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Copley turned again to the images, conceiving that the sense of deficiency which Drowne had just expressed, and which is so rare in a merely mechanical character, must surely imply a genius, the tokens of which had heretofore been overlooked.
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