Watch out! In his painting “Watson and the Shark,” John Singleton Copley depicts a young boy thrashing in the water as a shark menacingly approaches. Copley based this work on a true story—in 1749, a young sailor named Brook Watson was swimming in Havana, Cuba, and was attacked by a shark. Watson survived the attack, and grew up to be a successful businessman and politician in England. Almost thirty years after the attack, he hired John Singleton Copley to paint his miraculous survival story. On
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