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Richard Dietrich
In Pursuit of History .... John Singleton Copley's "Watson and the Shark"
1778.
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
West Building, Main Floor
The scale is huge at 71 11/16 x 90 7/16 in.

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2021-10-04

Is there another painting that makes your jaw drop more than John Singleton Copley's "Watson and the Shark?"

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2021-08-20

12 Works, July 3rd. is John Singleton Copley's day, his story, illustrated with footnotes

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2021-08-05

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

Evergood was obviously riffing on earlier works like John Singleton Copley's famed Watson and the Shark & Marsden Hartley's Eight Bells Folly, a memorial to poet Hart Crane

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2020-10-30

Brook Watson's teenage encounter with the shark was the subject of John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark (image: National Gallery of Art, Washington)

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2020-02-29

Obsessed with playing with Copley's "Watson and the Shark". This was 100% neural inpainted in dozens and dozens of detailed layers.

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2019-11-29

It's To celebrate, come and see John Singleton Copley's "Watson and the Shark" (1778) (or see one of Copley's other versions of the painting at and !) 🦈🌊

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2018-07-23

Today's painting was inspired by a recent visit from Year 3 students. Most of them agreed that they wished they had painted John Singleton Copley's Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, because of its size and detail.

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2017-12-16

'Sitwell Family' (1900) was intended to be hung as a companion portrait to Sitwell portrait of 1786.

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2017-09-25

Here's John S Copley's painting of the shark attack and here is Watson later in life minus leg.

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2017-09-19

Very taken with John Singleton Copley's portraits on a recent trip to Here's one for you this morning! :)

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2015-03-30

John Singleton Copley's "Watson and the Shark" is one of 's works.

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2014-08-04