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