id: 96328 accession number: 1916.2059 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.2059 updated: 2022-01-04 14:39:47.990000 Portrait of Benjamin West, 1818 or later. Copy after Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769-1830). Oil on canvas; framed: 102 x 88.5 x 11 cm (40 3/16 x 34 13/16 x 4 5/16 in.); unframed: 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1916.2059 title: Portrait of Benjamin West title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1818 or later creation date earliest: 1818 creation date latest: 1830 current location: creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: England, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769-1830) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 102 x 88.5 x 11 cm (40 3/16 x 34 13/16 x 4 5/16 in.); Unframed: 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland Museum of Art, 1956. --- PROVENANCE 1908 James Matthews (London, England), sold to Louis Kronberg, 1908; date: footnotes: citations: 1908 - 1916 Louis Kronberg, possibly 1872 - 1965 (London, England), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This bust-length portrait of the prominent American artist, Benjamin West, was allegedly painted by Thomas Lawrence. Although its attribution remains uncertain, the portrait's style and execution recalls other portraits of West by Lawrence, including the full-length painting now in the National Gallery, London. This smaller version may have been created when West was at an advanced age, and no longer able to stand for extended periods of time. However, as an exact, yet more freely painted likeness of the London portrait, this version also may be a copy made by Lawrence or one of his pupils after the full-length version. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 203; Mentioned: p. 202 url: "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 26-37. page number: Mentioned: p. 27 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136070 "Recent Changes in the Painting Galleries." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 2/3 (1918): 22-27. page number: Mentioned: p. 25 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25136174 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.2059/1916.2059_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.2059/1916.2059_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.2059/1916.2059_full.tif