Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael

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Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael

Benjamin WestLinkedCulture matchlcp-984bb5a6188c

Date
c. 1770
Medium
oil on canvas
Culture
America
Department
American Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
109245

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West was the first American artist to study in Italy, where he spent three years before permanently settling in London. He so admired the artistic ideals of the Italian Renaissance master Raphael that he named his eldest son after him, and he imitated Raphael’s celebrated Madonna of the Chair when composing this tender double portrait of his wife and child. Born in colonial America, West eventually became a court painter to George III of England.

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The Charles W. Harkness Gift
Provenance
1927-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio | 1916-1927: Edward S. Harkness [1874-1940], New York, NY, to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1916: Mary Warden Harkness [1864-1916], New York, NY, by bequest to her brother-in-law Edward S. Harkness | 1911-1916: Charles W. Harkness [1860-1916], New York, NY, by bequest to his wife Mary Warden Harkness1 | Until 1911: (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, sold to Charles W. Harkness) | ?: Henry J. Pfungst [1844-1917], Cleveland Square, London | By 1909: Castle Smith, London | Probably 1848-: Grandson of Benjamin West, Jr., to his widow | 1820-by 1848: Benjamin West, Jr. [1772-1848], to his grandson | c. 1770-1820: Benjamin West [1738-1820], London, to his son, Benjamin West, Jr.

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