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May 26 2011
Watson and the Shark
American / British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Sea Scapes - 12 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Watson and the Shark” of 1778 by John Singleton Copley. The artist was forty years old when this was produced having been born probably in Boston, Massachusetts, of Irish parents. His earliest work was a portrait executed in 1752. By the age of seventeen he was fully engaged in portraiture. In 1774 he left America due to increasing threats due to his Loyalist family connections. After American Independence, Copley maintained good relations with friends in Massachusetts. During the Napoleonic Wars his finances declined and the artist died in England in 1815. This work is 229.7 cm wide and 182.1 cm high and is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.
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