John Singleton Copley

Japanese: コプリー - こぷりー(英語表記)John Singleton Copley
John Singleton Copley

American painter. Along with B. West, he is known as America's greatest portrait and history painter from the colonial to federal periods. Born in Boston, he learned painting from P. Pelham, a painter to whom his mother remarried, and was also greatly influenced by J. Blackburn. After his "Boy with a Squirrel" (1765) was highly praised in London, he moved to England in 1774. He switched to history painting, and in 1776 was recommended as a member of the Royal Academy. In 1779, he clashed with the Academy when he did not exhibit "The Death of Chatham" in the Academy's exhibition, but instead charged an admission fee to show it to the public. After moving to England, he introduced the flamboyant Rococo style, and the straightforward, intimate style of his American days disappeared.

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Japanese:

アメリカの画家。B・ウェストとともに植民地期から連邦期におけるアメリカ最大の肖像画家、歴史画家として知られる。ボストンに生まれ、母親が再婚した画家P・ペルハムから絵を学ぶほか、J・ブラックバーンからも多大の影響を受ける。『リスと少年』(1765)がロンドンで激賞されたことから、1774年渡英。歴史画に転向して、76年にはロイヤル・アカデミー会員に推される。79年『チャザム伯の最期』をアカデミーの展覧会に出品せず、入場料をとって公開したことからアカデミーと衝突したこともある。渡英後は華やかなロココ様式を導入し、アメリカ時代の率直で親密感のある作風は消えた。

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