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  US 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