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John Singleton Copley
Watson and the Shark
Literature
Provenance
External links
Literature
John Walker,
National Gallery of Art, Washington
, New York, 1995, nr. 552
Provenance
Brook Watson (1735-1807), London and East Sheen, Surrey
bequeathed to Christ's Hospital, London
purchased 1963 by NGA
External links
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Accession number
1963.6.1
Other works by John Singleton Copley
Mrs. Daniel Hubbard (Mary Greene)
c. 1764
Mrs. Metcalf Bowler
c. 1763
Mrs. Jeremiah Lee (Martha Swett)
1769
Baron Graham
1804
John Singleton Copley
Watson and the Shark
1778
182.1 x 229.7 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated center left, inside boat: JSCopley.P.1778-
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ferdinand Lammot Belin Fund