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An introductory essay leads into this elaborate visual tour of classic pastel, ink, and watercolor artworks by notable American artists ranging from John Singleton Copley to John James Audubon to James McNeill Whistler and many more. En route to Harvard, John persuaded his older brother, acting as guide, to stop at the studio of John Singleton Copley, the leading painter in America at the time. Crain compares this pedagogic approach to merchants' book-keeping, ringing in a rather dull and static portrait by John Singleton Copley as an example of "relentless enumerating and stacking of visual elements. |
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John Singleton Copley - American painter who did portraits of Paul Revere and John Hancock before fleeing to England to avoid the American Revolution (1738-1815)