Master Paintings and Drawings
Master Paintings and Drawings
Property from a New York Collection
Studio of Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.
Portrait of Benjamin West, P.R.A. (1738 - 1820), bust-length
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March 23, 03:54 PM GMT
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Property from a New York Collection
Studio of Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.
Bristol 1769 - 1830 London
Portrait of Benjamin West, P.R.A. (1738 - 1820), bust-length
oil on canvas
canvas: 30 by 25 in.; 76.2 by 63.5 cm.
framed: 36 ½ by 31 ¼ in.; 92.7 by 79.4 cm.
This portrait is a high quality studio copy of the bust from Lawrence's full-length portrait of West, now in the Wadsworth Athenaeum.1 The full-length version was commissioned by the American Academy of Fine Art, New York in 1818 and completed after West's death in 1820, at which time Lawrence succeeded West as President of the Royal Academy.
1. See K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, a complete catalogue of the oil paintings, New York 1989, p, 280, cat. no. 807c.