artist: John Singleton Copley

instance of: painting (159) | drawing (1) | artwork original version (1)

commissioned by: Woodbury Langdon (1)

owned by: Dallas Museum of Art (2)

genre: portrait (64) | religious art (8) | history painting (3) | self-portrait (2) | miniature (2) | religious painting (1)

part of the series: Watson and the Shark (3)

depicts: man (16) | woman (11) | White people (5) | Havana (3) | shark attack (3) | Brook Watson (3) | tree (2) | dress (2) | Virgin Mary (1) | flower (1) | horse (1) | column (1) | cloud (1) | Colosseum (1) | paper (1) | shirt (1) | portrait (1) | coat (1)

material used: oil paint (131) | canvas (122) | canvas (5) | chalk (2) | graphite (1) | paper (1) | ivory (1) | laid paper (1) | wove paper (1) | watercolor paint (1)

collection: Museum of Fine Arts (48) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (17) | National Gallery of Art (16) | Detroit Institute of Arts (7) | Yale University Art Gallery (6) | National Portrait Gallery (5) | Art Institute of Chicago (5) | National Portrait Gallery (5) | Yale Center for British Art (5) | Worcester Art Museum (4) | Rhode Island School of Design Museum (4) | Cleveland Museum of Art (3) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (3) | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (3) | National Gallery (2) | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (2) | Tate (2) | Brooklyn Museum (2)

location: Museum of Fine Arts (48) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (16) | National Gallery of Art (16) | Detroit Institute of Arts (7) | Yale University Art Gallery (6) | National Portrait Gallery (5) | Art Institute of Chicago (5) | National Portrait Gallery (5) | Worcester Art Museum (4) | Rhode Island School of Design Museum (4) | Yale Center for British Art (4) | Cleveland Museum of Art (3) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (3) | M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (3) | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (2) | Tate (2) | Brooklyn Museum (2) | Dallas Museum of Art (2)

part of: Watson and the Shark (1)

country of origin: United States of America (105)

exhibition history: Highlights from the Collection: from Rodin to Warhol (1) | Portraiture: Identity (1)

main subject: Nativity of Jesus (1) | Samuel Adams (1) | John Hancock (1) | Paul Revere (1) | Joseph Warren (1) | William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1) | Samuel Barrington (1) | Ralph Izard (1) | Andrew Oliver (1) | George Augustus Eliott (1) | James Warren (1) | Dorothy Quincy (1) | Harrison Gray (1) | ascension of Jesus (1) | Joseph Barrell (1) | Nathaniel Hurd (1) | Thomas Hancock (1) | Nicholas Boylston (1)

donated by: Ruth C. Cross (1)

location of final assembly: United States of America (2)

published in: American art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1) | John Singleton Copley: American Portraits in Oil, Pastel, and Miniature (1) | Slavery in the Age of Reason: Archaeology at a New England Farm (1) | John Singleton Copley (1) | Early American Life (1)