1778
71 3/4" x 90 1/2"
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Painting ID:: 3921
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John Singleton Copley American Colonial Era Painter, 1738-1815
John Singleton Copley (1738[1] - 1815) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish. He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New England, depicting in particular middle-class subjects. His paintings were innovative in their tendency to depict artifacts relating to these individuals' lives. Watson and the Shark 1778
71 3/4" x 90 1/2"
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
