Jean Francois Millet
-a very famous realism painter, his subjects are ordinary people doing ordinary things
-Famous for his paintings of farmers doing their everyday work
-in the painting the gleaners women shown as being noteworthy for their hard efforts, usually they would have been painted as lowly servants
-he moved away from official painting style and worked on what he thought was worthwhile: painting everyday things to being them more importance
John Singleton Copley
-famous for his portraits of important figures in colonial New England, particularly men and women of the middle class.
-Boston's famous Copley Square is named for the artist and is situated in between the Boston Public Library, the John Hancock Tower, and the Trinity Church
-did portraits of Samuel Adams (1772) Paul Revere (1770)
-The Death of Major Peirson, this officer led a counter attack against the French and died in the battle, he is seen as a hero because of this painting