• Was an early American painter.
• Watson was born in Scotland in 1685.
• He worked initially painting house interiors, before turning to portraiture.
• In 1715 he emigrated to Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
• Watson bought property in the city east of Rector Street and south of St. Peter's Episcopal Church on the Perth Amboy bluffs and built himself a house in which to reside and one to keep his paintings.
• The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has a portrait of Governor William Keith (shown on the left) and his wife, Lady Ann Keith née Newberry or Newbury.
• The New Jersey Historical Society has two portraits: one of William Eier, the first mayor of Perth Amboy, and one of Governor William Burnet.
• Watson died in 1768 and is buried in St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery in Perth Amboy.
