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The American School, (painting). Artist:  Pratt, Matthew, 1734-1805, painter. Title:  The American School, (painting). Dates:  1765. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  36 x 50 1/4 in. (91.4 x 127.6 cm). Inscription:  (Lower left of painting on easel:) M. Pratt / ad. 1785 signed Description:  Scene depicting Benjamin West standing to the left, holding a palette and brushes, as he instructs a group of four young American painters seated around a table in West's elegant London home. A bust of a young boy rests on the table along with piles of sketches. To the right, one figure holding a palette and paint brush has just begun to work on a painting that is propped up on an easel in front of the table. Although Matthew Pratt's signature appears on the lower left the painting on the easel, Pratt is actually thought to be the figure seated on the left next to West, showing him a sketch on blue paper. The figure seated at the easel, as well as the two figures seated at the back of the table, are unidentified. Subject:  Figure group -- Male Portrait male -- West, Benjamin -- Full length Portrait male -- Pratt, Matthew -- Full length Portrait male -- Pratt, Matthew -- Self Portrait Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House Architecture interior -- Domestic -- West Occupation -- Art -- Painter Object -- Art Tool -- Palette Object -- Art Tool -- Artist's Brush Object -- Art Tool -- Easel Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 97.29.3 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Pratt, Nathan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania until 1805. Jackson, Rosalie V. Tiers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by 1887. Avery, Samuel P., New York, New York 1896-1897. References:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Gardner & Feld, "American Ptgs," Metropolitan Museum, Vol. I, 1965, pg. 21-22. Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 57. Saunders, Richard H., and Ellen G. Miles, "American Colonial Portraits 1700-1776," Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery, 1987, pg. 265. "Survey of American Paintings," Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, 1940, no. 50. Illustration:  Image on file. "Guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972, pg. 12. Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 59. Saunders, Richard H., and Ellen G. Miles, "American Colonial Portraits 1700-1776," Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery, 1987, pg. 265. "Survey of American Paintings," Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, 1940, pl. 11. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 36120017   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 36120017 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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