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  • John Singleton Copley: The Copley Family
    In John Singleton Copley

    …made eloquent use of the portrait d’apparat—a Rococo device of portraying subjects with objects associated with their daily lives—which gave his work a liveliness and acuity not usually associated with 18th-century American painting. This device allowed Copley to insert English references into his portraits, thereby reinforcing the Anglophilia of many…

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