John Singleton CopleyUSA, 1738–1815John Winthrop (1714-1779)
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John Winthrop was the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard from 1738 to 1779. Copley depicted him holding in his hand a diagram showing the transit of Venus which he observed in 1761. The brass portable Cassegrain reflecting telescope on the table to his left was made by the London instrument maker James Short circa 1758. The telescope was Winthrop's personal property and was given to the College after his death in 1779, and is now in the University's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.
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Imens i livet hos John Singleton Copley
Hele livet1753–1774 · Virkested
Boston
June 1771 – January 1772
A trip to New York: thirty-seven portraits
At the invitation of Myles Cooper, president of King’s College, whose portrait Copley had painted in Boston in 1768, he sets up his easel on Broadway in New York and paints thirty-seven portraits. It is his only American tour away from Boston: most of the Southern portraits attributed to him were in fact made by Henry Benbridge.
1773
His father-in-law is consignee of the Boston Tea Party tea
Richard Clarke, the artist’s father-in-law, was the merchant to whom the tea that provoked the Boston Tea Party was consigned. All of Copley’s family connections were Loyalists, and at a meeting described in his letter of 1 December 1773 he defended his wife’s relatives.
April 1774
A mob at Copley’s house looks for the Loyalist Watson
A mob comes to Copley’s house demanding Col. George Watson, a Loyalist mandamus counsellor who had gone elsewhere; the patriots threaten to have Copley’s blood if he ever again shelters such a villain. In a letter of 26 April he is appalled: had Watson stayed the night, as he had pressed him to, he would have had to give up a friend to the insult of a mob or have his house pulled down and perhaps his family murdered.
June 1774
Sails from Boston for London
Amid growing unrest on the eve of the War of Independence, and urged on by correspondents in England, Copley sails with many letters of introduction, leaving his mother, wife and children in Henry Pelham’s charge. He never returns to America.
1774–1815 · Virkested
London
