# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-singleton-copley
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:47:59.535Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-singleton-copley"
name: "John Singleton Copley"
slug: "john-singleton-copley"
description: "John Singleton Copley was an American-born British painter active in both the Thirteen Colonies and England. He is believed to have been born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. After becoming well-established as a portrait painter of the wealthy in colonial New England, he moved to London in 1774, never returning to America. In London, he met considerable success as a portraitist for the next two decades, and also painted a number of large history paintings, which were innovative in their readiness to depict modern subjects and modern dress. His later years were less successful, and he died heavily in debt. He was father of John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst and half-brother of Henry Pelham, the American painter, engraver, and cartographer."
tagline: "American painter (1738-1815)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Self_portrait_of_John_Singleton_Copley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "artists"
profileType:
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  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1738-07-03"
deathDate: "1815-09-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.606412715812549
  historical:           20.90285733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump