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A Boy with a Flying Squirrel (Henry Pelham), or Henry Pelham (Boy with a Squirrel), is a 1765 painting by the American-born painter John Singleton Copley. It depicts Copley's half-brother Henry Pelham with a pet flying squirrel, a creature commonly found in colonial American portraits as a symbol of the sitter's refinement. Painted while Copley was a Boston-based portraitist aspiring to be recognized by his European contemporaries, the work was brought to London for a 1766 exhibition. There, it was met with overall praise from artists like Joshua Reynolds, who nonetheless criticized Copley's minuteness. Later historians and critics assessed the painting as a pivotal work in both Copley's career and the history of American art. The work was featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts

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rdfs:comment	A Boy with a Flying Squirrel (Henry Pelham), or Henry Pelham (Boy with a Squirrel), is a 1765 painting by the American-born painter John Singleton Copley. It depicts Copley's half-brother Henry Pelham with a pet flying squirrel, a creature commonly found in colonial American portraits as a symbol of the sitter's refinement. Painted while Copley was a Boston-based portraitist aspiring to be recognized by his European contemporaries, the work was brought to London for a 1766 exhibition. There, it was met with overall praise from artists like Joshua Reynolds, who nonetheless criticized Copley's minuteness. Later historians and critics assessed the painting as a pivotal work in both Copley's career and the history of American art. The work was featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	American Art (journal) Patagium Benjamin West Boston Allan Cunningham (author) John Murray (publishing house) John Singleton Copley John Wilmerding Joshua Reynolds Peter Pelham University of California Press Visual art of the United States John Bee Holmes Pastel Massachusetts Historical Society Oil painting Christie's Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Thirteen Colonies London Portrait Portrait painting Titian William Dunlap Daniel C. Verplanck Flying squirrel History painting Henry Theodore Tuckerman Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Jennifer Roberts (art historian) Atlantic Ocean 1765 paintings 18th-century portraits Paintings by John Singleton Copley Paintings in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Paintings of people Squirrels in art John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst College Art Association Henry Pelham Pine Portrait of Mrs. Theodore Atkinson Jr. Squirrel Metropolitan Museum of Art National Gallery of Art New England Christian art Yale University Press The Burlington Magazine Natural history Lord Cardross Mahogany Silhouette Society of Artists of Great Britain University of Chicago Press Samuel Benjamin
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