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...hunt the larger truths because we can't help it, especially within sight of a critical election, when pundits and pollsters have to reach general conclusions about countless specific doubts and hopes. But America won't sit still to have her portrait painted. Our politics especially resist reduction. One reason lawmakers have to draw such twisted districts to save their seats is that we are so much more purple than they'd like, a tangle of red suburbs of blue cities and blue counties in red states. That mischievous map of a huge central red sea cupped by blue parentheses...
...mystery surrounds the Bessborough portrait as well. The University Art Museums Web site includes an entry for the work, though it does not list it as missing or stolen. But unlike 20 of the 23 other Copley paintings listed in Harvard’s collection, the University Art Museums Web site has no archived image of the Bessborough portrait...
...portrait is the work of one of colonial America’s most distinguished artists. Copley, born in Boston in 1738, had ties to the Tories who supported British rule during the time of the American Revolution. He left Massachusetts for London in 1774 and never returned to his native land. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1779—a likely explanation for the “RA” in the signature on the painting in question...
Bessborough, the subject of the portrait, was a Whig member of Parliament and a British government official in Ireland. He died...
Copley painted the Bessborough portrait after he moved from America to England and worked under a British patron. “He was a particular champion during his English phase,” said Margaretta M. Lovell, a professor of American art history and architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. She added that Copley, in his British years, adopted a painting style distinct from his American work...