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WATSON AND THE SHARK (1778) is an oil by the painter John Singleton Copley, depicting the rescue of the English boy Brook Watson from a attack in Liz created a version depicting Quint trying to protect Alex Kintner.

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2021-08-04

Sending positives vibes! Heres a drawing I made a coples of months ago to celebrate the 25th anniversary! 🎉

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2021-07-30

Several scholars have traced the debts that Copley owes to previous artworks, in terms of composition, anatomy, and metaphorical import. Watson is pictured with a similar body and posture (though rotated and semi-submerged) to the Borghese Gladiator (from the third century BCE).

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2021-07-20

John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark (1778).

Subject of our latest Collections post: https://t.co/QxaR9Sx69a

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2021-07-20

Guías de personajes de de la A-K, de la L-Z y el acople de la A-Z (especiales de la revista Kame). Estudio Inu, 1997.

En los tiempos pre-Internet este material era oro. Necesitamos una expansión de esta enciclopedia como el comer 🤔

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2021-07-16

George Hayter's preparatory sketch of Sir John Copley (later 1st Baron Lyndhurst) as Solicitor General, made during the trial of (1820).

Alternative title: 'A portrayal of a death glare.'

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2021-07-07

2/2 British officer Colonel William Fitch and his sisters Sarah and Ann. John Singleton Copley painting the other side! But this was from 1800, in that brief period when everybody was friends.

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2021-07-04

Watson, saved from the shark, went on to live a long life (was Lord Mayor of London!) tho absent a leg. Here, his moment of peril, immortalized in 1778 by John Singleton Copley whose day is today.

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2021-07-04

Born on this day in 1738, in Boston, John Singleton Copley. Painter of portraits and the occasional history scene. Here by himself around 1780, looking dashing in that 18th-century way.

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2021-07-03

John Singleton Copley was born in 1738, Copley was famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in both America and Britain. Here is his depiction of Richard Heber from 1782, from the collection

https://t.co/kOKv7tHvOq

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2021-07-03

John Singleton Copley, btd 1738, foremost American colonial portraitist, taught himself to paint by copying Italian engravings, producing 'Return of Neptune' at age 15! He rarely did mythological subjects later, but 'Venus & Cupid' is a wonderfully warm study of mother & child

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2021-07-03

John Singleton Copley, Abigael Bromfield Rogers (Mrs. Daniel Denison Rogers) (1753-1791), c. 1784 https://t.co/Rt9J6lmeC4

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2021-06-01

This beautifully and thoroughly illustrated book constitutes the first serious investigation of the relationship between the artists Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley.

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2021-05-21

John Singleton Copley, Mrs. Jerathmael Bowers, ca. 1763 https://t.co/0ouD2cHsYI

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2021-05-17

Mi sona vs yo :)

Mas o menos la realidad y asi jajaja no se aleja mucho xd ademas todos estaban haciendo esto y me acople lmao

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2021-05-05

John Singleton Copley, Study for "Monmouth Before James II", 1782-1794 https://t.co/yktuk0wUXW

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2021-05-05