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Boston Brahmins have never been able to decide whether their most famed painter was born in 1737 or 1738. Last week the Metropolitan Museum of Art cut the knot, arbitrarily picked the first date and gave as a bicentennial exhibition the largest showing of the works of John Singleton Copley the U. S. has ever seen. Forty-seven pictures were on view, borrowed from such diverse sources as Buckingham Palace, the St. Louis Art Museum, Harvard University, Lord Brabourne, the London Foundling Hospital, Hartford's Atheneum, and a Mr. Henderson Inches. The Metropolitan's Copley show traced...
...eleven-acre farm on Beacon Hill. He had had quite a success with a portrait of his half-brother playing with a squirrel, which he had shipped to the London Society of Artists on the advice of his friend, Artist Benjamin West.* This, the first picture of John Singleton Copley to attract international attention, was back in the Metropolitan last week, lent by a heavily anonymous owner...
...married a third, sired a tenth child. Undaunted, Artist Copley got Ladies Knatchbull I and II in the picture as angels in the sky, but later Sir Edward had them painted out. Out of fashion and in debt, Artist Copley died in 1815, twelve years before his son, John Singleton Jr., became Lord Chancellor of England...
...Singleton of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, by pollinating corn from three different strains, grew ears with alternating rows of red, white & blue kernels...
...chain of circumstantial evidence drawn by the Crown about the accused man's neck. On the last day of the trial, Ratanji jittered, wept, frequently wiped with a handkerchief his profusely perspiring hands. Yet there was still no direct evidence. After the jury verdict of guilty, Justice Singleton put on the black cap which in Britain means that sentence of Death is to be pronounced. "The law knows but one sentence," he cried, "for the terrible crime you have committed...