| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Opie, John |
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| 1761–1807, English portrait and historical painter. Opie showed a remarkable talent as a young man. He became the protégé of the poet John Wolcot, and enjoyed a brief popularity as a fashionable portrait painter in the Reynolds tradition. In 1786 he began a series of seven pictures for Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery. His portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft is in the National Portrait Gallery, London. | 1 | | See A. Earland, John Opie and His Circle (1911). | 2 |
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