John Copley
John Copley was a famous colonial painter. He painted portraits of rich upper class citizens. Since people in this time people had no TV or video games many enjoyed looking at art and John Copley’s was particularly liked since it incorporated significant items in the person’s life in the painting. As John became more and more famous he began receiving requests from more important people. Some of these include Paul Revere,John and Dorothy Hancock,Thomas Gage, and Sam Adams. A sign of being a wealthy person and someone who was able to spend his money on leisure items was to have a portrait of you or your family in your house, particularly a John Copley painting was a status symbol.Paintings were one of the few good colonial art forms and the upper class loved critiquing and evaluating each other’s family portraits and paintings.John Singleton Copley started painting when he was about thirteen years old and ever since then he has inspired people to copy his style and create their own paintings and their own portraits. John Copley’s art became so well liked and famous that it moved all throughout Europe and he toured doing portraits for more and more people.He died in 1815 in the West Indies.
Philip Freneau
Philip Freneau was a colonial poet in the eighteenth century. He is often referred to as “The Poet of the American Revolution” because of his nationalist beliefs and the way his used his skill with writing for political gains. During the time of Philip’s life there was a great struggle for leadership and there was an even larger need for information and literature not necessarily solely for entertainment.Freneau wrote a number of pieces solely for entertainment but he also wrote quite a few anti-British pieces that in the end got him in a bit of trouble.He spent six weeks of his live incarcerated by the British. Freneau also created the first colonial poem about love. Since love is such a universal emotion people have always wanted to read about it and watch things relating to it.Philip Freneau’s works were read by both the common man looking for a story about love or looking for political advice and by upperclassmen looking for a sophisticated story and a political outlook against the British. Philip Freneau died on December 18th,1832 because he got drunk stumbled into a forest and later froze to death. That is the way a true American leader dies.
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