John Singleton Copley, 1778 - Watson and the Shark - fine art print

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Although the attribution of this iconic work to Copley has been questioned, this may be a rapid study after the first of three versions painted by the artist beginning around 1778. The original is now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.; a second version is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and a third, dated 1782, is in the Detroit Institute of Arts. The painting depicts the future Lord Mayor of London Brook Watson’s loss of his leg to a shark while swimming in Havana harbor in 1749. By representing this dramatic episode in Watson’s youth, Copley furthered the revolutionary approach to history painting–practiced by fellow artists Benjamin West and John Trumbull–highlighting an ordinary man in the midst of an extraordinary event.

Background information on this more than 240 year-old work of art

This classic art piece of art with the title Watson and the Shark was painted by the American artist John Singleton Copley in 1778. The 240 year old masterpiece was made with the size: 24 7/8 x 30 1/8 in (63,2 x 76,5 cm) and was produced on the medium oil on canvas. The work of art is part of the art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York, United States of America. The classic art public domain work of art is supplied with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Gordon Dexter, 1942. : Gift of Mrs. Gordon Dexter, 1942. Besides this, the alignment is landscape and has a ratio of 1.2 : 1, meaning that the length is 20% longer than the width. The artist, painter John Singleton Copley was an artist, whose art style can be attributed primarily to Romanticism. The painter lived for 77 years and was born in the year 1738 in Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States and passed away in the year 1815.

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