Copley Shark's Added Bite

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 15, 1993| Author: Hank Burchard | Copyright information

IF, LIKE ALL persons of good and gory taste, you have always loved the painting "Watson and the Shark" at the National Gallery of Art, now you'll like it thrice as much.

John Singleton Copley's dramatic 1778 rendition of young sailor Brook Watson being snatched from the jaws of death has been temporarily joined by his two other versions of the same painting, which was such a sensation in England that Copley settled there and never came home to Boston.

Art historians love "Watson...

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