Fleeing the violence of the American Revolution, John Singleton Copley and his family settled in London in 1775. While Copley (standing at top left) tried to remain neutral, his father-in-law Richard Clarke (seated in front of the artist) supported the British. This group portrait suggests domestic harmony despite the political turmoil.

The Copley Family shows the six members of the artist’s clan as it existed at the beginning of 1777. Copley has shown three adults—the artist, his wife, and her father—and his four children.

From 1776 to 1777, after immigrating to England from America, Copley painted a monumental portrait of his family (now at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.). He had preceded them to Europe by eighteen months, so the composition celebrated their happy reunion. It also demonstrated Copley’s skills as a portraitist.

Fleeing the violence of the American Revolution, John Singleton Copley and his family settled in London in 1775. While Copley (standing at top left) tried to remain neutral, his father-in-law Richard Clarke (seated in front of the artist) supported the British. This group portrait suggests domestic harmony despite the political turmoil.

John Singleton Copley / ˈkɑːpli / RA (July 3, 1738 [1] – September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was believed to be born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish.

The Copley Family shows the six members of the artist’s clan as it existed at the beginning of 1777. Copley has shown three adults—the artist, his wife, and her father—and his four children.

In June 1774, when he was already thirty-five years old, Copley decided that he must go to Europe. Although he intended to stay abroad just long enough to ... Home

Greene was the son of Elizabeth Clarke Copley, the artist's daughter, and Gardiner Greene; see The Greene Family in England and America with Pedigrees, Boston, 1901, 83-86, and Louise Brownell Clarke, The Greenes of Rhode Island, with Historical Records of English Ancestry, 1534-1902, New York, 1903, 432, 580.

Copley’s most ambitious self-portrait, The Copley Family (1776–77, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), was painted in England and also portrays his wife, his father-in-law, and four of his six children.

作品：科普利家族 英文：The Copley Family 类型：布面油画 尺寸：184.4cm × 230.1cm 日期：1776-1777年 收藏：美国国家艺术馆，美国 标签： 《科普利家族》（英文：The Copley Family） 是美国艺术家『约翰·辛格尔顿·科普利』 1776-1777年 所作。