John Singleton Copley was an American (colonial) painter who was also popular and well-known in Georgian England. He did portraits of: the famous American revolutionaries John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Paul Revere; the British military commander Thomas Gage (painted pre-Revolution); and the three youngest daughters of George III. This painting is just the wife of a well-to-do American gentleman, Mrs. Ezekiel Goldthwait. Copley is one of the British/American painters who stood out as the few realistic painters of the 18th century, in comparison to superficial, Rococo France.
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