. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. in with Brook Watson as travelling com-panion, a man who, though in the prime of life,had for many years worn a wooden leg in placeof one which, when a boy, he had sacrificed tothe rapacious appetite of a shark. From thechance encounter with Watson sprang Copleysfirst historical picture, — A Youth Rescuedfrom a Shark. On one occasion, ProfessorAgassiz adduced in proof of his contentionthat sharks would attack the living this picture,of which he remembered to have seen an en-graving somewhere. Portraits, how
. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. in with Brook Watson as travelling com-panion, a man who, though in the prime of life,had for many years worn a wooden leg in placeof one which, when a boy, he had sacrificed tothe rapacious appetite of a shark. From thechance encounter with Watson sprang Copleysfirst historical picture, — A Youth Rescuedfrom a Shark. On one occasion, ProfessorAgassiz adduced in proof of his contentionthat sharks would attack the living this picture,of which he remembered to have seen an en-graving somewhere. Portraits, however, continued to be the workin which Copley was most successful, and ofthese perhaps the best is the so-called familypicture in which are represented the artist, hiswife, his father-in-law, Richard Clarke, andhis four young children, three of whom survivedhim to a very advanced age. Against a back-ground which is undoubtedly a faithful tran-script of the family sitting-room is shown , seated on a crimson couch and caressingher only son, the future Lord Lyndhurst, while. JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY. From the portrait by the artistPage 198
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