Henry Pelham, Boy with a Squirrel, 1765 Art Poster Print by John Singleton Copley, 11x14 Review

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(More customer reviews)John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) was born in Boston, and though he learnt at an early age the tools and basics of painting from his artist stepfather Peter Pelham, and continued art as a living after Pelham's death when Copley was in his early teens, he was largely self-taught as a portraitist, and did very well with the commissions he received from many wealthy clients.
Encouraged by England's great Joshua Reynolds, who praised Copley's "Henry Pelham (Boy with a Squirrel)", Copley left America for Europe in 1774, and then settled in London, perhaps partly to further his career, and partly because his wife was from a Loyalist family, and Boston was not the best place for Loyalists to live in the mid 1770s; once in London, he did the work he had always wanted to do...large canvases with historical themes, and he also became a member of the prestigious Royal Academy of Art.

"Henry Pelham (Boy with a Squirrel)" was painted in 1765 of Copley's half-brother, and has exquisite detail and fine brushwork with such things as the fabric and the squirrel's fur. The original is oil on canvas, approximately 30 x 25 in size, and hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Though Copley's work has never really enthused me, especially those paintings from what is known as his historical "British Period", I acknowledge his magnificent skill, and appreciate that we are able to see portraits of his contemporaries like John Hancock in 1765 and Paul Revere in 1768, and "Henry Pelham (Boy with a Squirrel)" is one of Copley's best and most famous pieces, and one of my favorites from his very prolific body of work.

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