MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Milwaukee Art Museum has acquired the portrait Alice Hooper, a major colonial American painting by John Singleton Copley (17381815). Copley is recognized as one of the great American artists of the dayand one of the first native-born painters to achieve success both at home and abroad. Alice Hooper, painted by Copley around 1763, depicts the seventeen-year-old daughter of the wealthiest man in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Robert King Hooper. Alices father commissioned this portrait to mark his daughters engagement to Jacob Fowle, Jr. Alice Hooper displays the traits that made Copley desirable in colonial Boston. Copleys rendering of her fashionable sacque gown dazzles the eye, with its profusion of glinting blue satin and frothy lace spilling from its underdress, said William Rudolph,