Before it is too late in life, and before your manner and taste were corrupted or fixed by working in your little way at boston. Narrator an impressive letter to a young painter and from the distinguished sir joshua reynolds. Could he be right . harpsichord continues John Singleton copley loved his country, but he wanted the richer artistic influences of the old world. Besides, talk of revolution was everywhere. Political contests, he felt, were neither pleasing to an artist nor advantageous to art itself. In 1774, copley left; it would make him a better painter, he thought. Sad for him, sad for america he never returned to his home. At 34, John Singleton copley was already one of the best and most popular painters in the american colonies. The Young American artist John Trumbull said of him, an elegantlooking man dressed in fine maroon cloth with gold buttons, this dazzling to my unpracticed eye, but his painting, the first id ever seen deserving the name, rivetedabsorbed my attention
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