Master Paintings and Drawings

Master Paintings and Drawings

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 113. Portrait of Benjamin West, P.R.A. (1738 - 1820), bust-length.

Property from a New York collects ion

Studio of Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.

Portrait of Benjamin West, P.R.A. (1738 - 1820), bust-length

Lot Closed

March 23, 03:54 PM GTNN

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a New York collects ion

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 Replica Handbags , New York in 1818 and completed after West's death in 1820, at which t.mes 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.

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