John Singleton Copley is recorded in the Getty Union List of Artist Names with the biographical note: American painter, 1738-1815. The record places his birth in Boston and death in London. Getty classifies the person under these roles: miniature painters, portraitists, painters (artists), pastelists, printmakers. The nationality terms attached to the record are American. The record carries 16 forms of the name and the identifier 500009177. In this atlas the person is linked as the creator of Watson and the Shark.
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Source Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Copley, John Singleton (American painter, 1738-1815)
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Copley, John Singleton (American painter, 1738-1815)
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Born: Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) (inhabited place)
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1. Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Copley, John Singleton (American painter, 1738-1815)
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Copley, John Singleton (American painter, 1738-1815)
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Copley, John Singleton (American painter, 1738-1815)
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Copley's artistic career began in earnest in 1751 at the age of thirteen when, following the death of his stepfather, he set up shop as a painter and engraver to supplement the income from his mother's tobacco shop.
John Singleton Copley (Wikipedia)
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With his startling likenesses of persons and things, he came to define a realist art tradition in America.
Watson and the Shark (Wikipedia)
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Watson and the Shark is an oil painting by the Anglo-American painter John Singleton Copley, depicting the rescue of the English boy Brook Watson from a shark attack in Havana, Cuba.
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