This carries through from the early colonial portraits by British artists, which influenced American painters such as John Singleton Copley, all the way through to Europhile John Singer Sargent.

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The writer and director, John Singleton, is a twenty-three-year-old graduate of the U.S.C. film school.

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John Singleton Copley's 1768 masterwork, "Paul Revere, " still gets pride of place, though.

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