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John White: The Village of Secoton, c. 1585. Benjamin West, William Penn’s Treaty
Watercolor on paper, 12¾ x 7¾ in. with the Indians in 1683 (1771-72)
John Singleton Copley, Watson John Singleton Copley,
and the Shark (1776) Paul Revere (1768)
English portrait
tradition, e.g.
Sir Godfrey Kneller, John Singleton Copley,
Self-Portrait (1706) Henry Pelham or Boy with a Squirrel (1765)
• Portraiture the only marketable genre Skirting the low status of portraiture:
in New England
• This is where Copley had developed
expertise
• Yet he knew this wasn’t the elevated
abstract generalizations of European
Grand Manner
• Profile view distances and generalizes
the portrait, removing it from the
realm of strict portraiture
“Minerva shield me
I abhor it as Death”
Magna Carta
Silk embroidery