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=  This painting was based off of a shark attack in, a Havanna harbor in 1749, 14- year old Brooke Watson was the victim.I like this painting because how the artist kept the same intensity as the real event.This painting Watson painted for himself is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.

[|John Singleton Copley] (painter)

American, 1738 - 1815


 * //Watson and the Shark//**, 1778

oil on canvas

overall: 182.1 x 229.7 cm (71 11/16 x 90 7/16 in.) framed: 241.3 x 264.2 x 10.1 cm (95 x 104 x 4 in.)

Ferdinand Lammot Belin Fund

1963.6.1