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EncyclopediaOpie, JohnOpie, John, 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. See A. Earland, John Opie and His Circle (1911). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. More on John Opie from Infoplease:
- Cornish Wonder - Cornish Wonder (The). John Opie, of Cornwall, the painter. (1761-1807.) Source: Dictionary of ...
- Cornish Wonder - Cornish Wonder (The). John Opie, of Cornwall, the painter. (1761-1807.) Source: Dictionary of ...
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