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American painting 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
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
1866
US painter Winslow Homer makes his name with the exhibition of a Civil War subject,
Prisoners from the Front
1875
US artist Thomas Eakins' depiction of the gruesome aspect of surgery, in his portrait of Dr Gross, offends many viewers
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