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US art timeline
1775
John Singleton Copley, already established as America's greatest portrait painter, moves to London
1778
In
Brook Watson and the Shark
John Singleton Copley creates the most intensely dramatic of his modern history paintings
1785
French sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon crosses the Atlantic to sculpt a statue of George Washington from the life at Mount Vernon
1827
With
Kaaterskill Falls
26-year-old Thomas Cole pioneers a heroic tradition in US landscape painting
c. 1835
A school of landscape painting emerges in New York, with emphasis on the scenery of the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains
1838
John James Audubon completes publication of the 435 plates forming his 4-volume
Birds of America
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