Copley, Mrs. Humphrey Devereux (Mary Charnock) 1771

a. Wise beautiful faces of women
b. Thinker pose
c. Well-to-do Bostonians "table-top compositions."
d. 1770: a new form of literature "The Novel" Jane Austen is not a plot-driven sitter but a character-driven sitter, Marxist response: makes wealthy people look introspective, mythicizes wealthy people (you can't blame artists for their patrons)