John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst
John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst, was a British lawyer and politician. He was three times Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Lord Lyndhurst wearing the parliamentary robes of a baron, portrait by Felix Rogge c.1836
John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst in the late 1850s.
Grave of John Singleton Copley in Highgate Cemetery (west)
John Singleton Copley was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was suspected to be born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. After becoming well-established as a portrait painter of the wealthy in colonial New England, he moved to London in 1774, never returning to America. In London, he met considerable success as a portraitist for the next two decades, and also painted a number of large history paintings, which were innovative in their readiness to depict modern subjects and modern dress. His later years were less successful, and he died heavily in debt. He was father of John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst.
Self-Portrait, c. 1769, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, Delaware
Portrait of Ann Fairchild Bowler (1758)
Portrait of the Copley family (1776)
Mars, Venus and Vulcan (1754) (Kalamazoo Institute of Arts)