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| 1763 |
| | | American artist Benjamin West settles in London, where he becomes famous for his large-scale history scenes | |
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| 1775 |
| | | John Singleton Copley, already established as America's greatest portrait painter, moves to London | |
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| 1778 |
| | | In Brook Watson and the Shark John Singleton Copley creates the most intensely dramatic of his modern history paintings | |
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| 1827 |
| | | With Kaaterskill Falls 26-year-old Thomas Cole pioneers a heroic tradition in US landscape painting | |
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| c. 1835 |
| | | A school of landscape painting emerges in New York, with emphasis on the scenery of the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains | |
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| 1866 |
| | | US painter Winslow Homer makes his name with the exhibition of a Civil War subject, Prisoners from the Front | |
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| 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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| 1885 |
| | | The American portrait-painter John Singer Sargent makes London his home and begins an immensely successful career | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Artists dedicated to celebrating the Canadian landscape come together as the Group of Seven | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Diego Rivera, returning from his study of Italian frescoes, begins the first of his influential murals depicting Mexican history | |
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