Watson and the Shark

Enlightenment

Britain and America

Satire, land, the Academy and the new republic, about 1743–1796

Painters in Britain worked for print buyers, landowners and exhibition audiences, and stretched history painting to fit portraits and recent events; the young United States took up the same tools for portraits of its own.

  • Hogarth's painted series and the shilling print
  • Portraits of land, family and rank
  • Light, horses and collecting as subjects
  • Recent events given the weight of history
  • Painters in the early United States

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