Who painted “Watson and the Shark”?

“Watson and the Shark” was painted by John Singleton Copley in 1778. Where to see it: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Romanticism: Neoclassicism is cool and linear; Romanticism is turbulent and colourful. Realism, which followed, replaced drama with ordinary life.

John Singleton Copley (July 3, 1738 – September 9, 1815) was an American-born British painter active in both the Thirteen Colonies and England. He is believed to have been born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. Wikipedia

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