Benjamin West, (painting).

Benjamin West, (painting).

Unknown, painter.

West, Benjamin, 1738-1820, painter. (copy after)

Benjamin West, (painting).

39 1/4 x 51 in. (99.7 x 129.5 cm).

This portrait is a copy of Benjamin West's self-portrait in the collection of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and refers to his position as president of the Royal Academy. West is seated in a chair at a desk that is covered in books and papers. A plaster cast of a human torso is on the left side of the desk. In the background is a window through which is Somerset House, the home of the Royal Academy.

Portrait male -- West, Benjamin -- Waist length

Occupation -- Art -- Painter

Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House

Architecture interior -- Detail -- Window

Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- Somerset House

Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1948.222

Bequest of Gould, Clara Hinton, Santa Barbara, California 1948.222

Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 817.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, fig. 509.

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