{
"data": {
"id": 109245,
"accession_number": "1927.393",
"share_license_status": "CC0",
"tombstone": "Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael, c. 1770. Benjamin West (American, born The Thirteen Colonies, 1738\u20131820). Oil on canvas; framed: 88 x 87.5 x 9 cm (34 5/8 x 34 7/16 x 3 9/16 in.); unframed: 66.5 x 66.3 cm (26 3/16 x 26 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Charles W. Harkness Gift, 1927.393",
"current_location": "204 Colonial American",
"title": "Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael",
"creation_date": "c. 1770",
"creation_date_earliest": 1765,
"creation_date_latest": 1775,
"artists_tags": [
"male"
],
"culture": [
"America"
],
"technique": "oil on canvas",
"support_materials": [],
"department": "American Painting and Sculpture",
"collection": "American - Painting",
"type": "Painting",
"measurements": "Framed: 88 x 87.5 x 9 cm (34 5/8 x 34 7/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 66.5 x 66.3 cm (26 3/16 x 26 1/8 in.)",
"dimensions": {
"framed": {
"height": 0.88,
"height_inch": 34,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.625,
"width": 0.875,
"width_inch": 34,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.4375,
"depth": 0.09,
"depth_inch": 3,
"depth_inch_fraction": 0.5625
},
"unframed": {
"height": 0.665,
"height_inch": 26,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.1875,
"width": 0.663,
"width_inch": 26,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.125
}
},
"state_of_the_work": null,
"edition_of_the_work": null,
"copyright": null,
"inscriptions": [],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 312517,
"title": "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition",
"description": "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).",
"opening_date": "1936-06-26T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 304248,
"title": "Style, Truth and the Portrait",
"description": "Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963).",
"opening_date": "1963-10-01T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 515741,
"title": "The American Portrait",
"description": "The American Portrait. Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA (organizer) (September 14-October 31, 1965).",
"opening_date": "1965-09-14T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 516052,
"title": "American Masters",
"description": "American Masters. Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI (organizer) (September 14-October 19, 1966).",
"opening_date": "1966-09-14T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 180609,
"title": "CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits",
"description": "CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 29-December 17, 2006).",
"opening_date": "2006-08-29T00:00:00"
}
],
"legacy": [
{
"description": "London, The Royal Academy of Arts, (1770), see Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their Work from its Foundation in 1769 to 1904 p. 212, no. 198.",
"opening_date": "1904-01-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibtion of The Cleveland Museum of Art; The Official Great Lakes Exposition (26 January-4 October 1936), no. 53, p. 30.",
"opening_date": "1936-01-26T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Benjamin West 1738-1820 (1938), cat. no. 18, not illus.",
"opening_date": "1938-01-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Akron, Akron Art Institute, 40 American Painters: A Survey of American Painting from Colonial to Modern Times, fo the Opening of the Institute (December, 1945), illus. cat. no. 2.",
"opening_date": "1945-12-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, 10th Anniversary Exhibition (October, 1946), cat. no. 12, not illus.",
"opening_date": "1946-10-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Dayton, Dayton Art Institute, The Artist and His Family (3 March-April, 1950), cat. no. 38.",
"opening_date": "1950-03-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Style, Truth, and the Portrait (1 October-10 November 1963) cat. no. 46, illus.",
"opening_date": "1963-10-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Greensburg, PA, The Westmoreland Country Museum of Art, The American Portrait (19 September-31 October 1965)",
"opening_date": "1965-09-19T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Kalamazoo, MI, Kalamazoo Art Center, Paintings by American Masters: Fifth Anniversary Exhibition (14 September-19 October 1966), illus. p. 6.",
"opening_date": "1966-09-14T00:00:00"
}
]
},
"provenance": [
{
"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "1927-",
"sortorder": 1
},
{
"description": "Edward S. Harkness [1874-1940], New York, NY, to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "1916-1927",
"sortorder": 2
},
{
"description": "Mary Warden Harkness [1864-1916], New York, NY, by bequest to her brother-in-law Edward S. Harkness",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [
"Mary Warden Harkness's will states: \u201cI give and bequeath to my husband\u2019s brother, Edward S. Harkness, the paintings described as follows, for his life, and upon his death I give and bequeath the same to the Art Museum of Cleveland, at Cleveland, Ohio, to be known as The Charles W. Harkness Gift.\u201d
"
],
"date": "1916",
"sortorder": 3
},
{
"description": "Charles W. Harkness [1860-1916], New York, NY, by bequest to his wife Mary Warden Harkness1",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [
"1The Knoedler inventory cards document the sale of the painting (stock no. F 411) to Harkness in November 1911.
"
],
"date": "1911-1916",
"sortorder": 4
},
{
"description": "(M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, sold to Charles W. Harkness)",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "Until 1911",
"sortorder": 5
},
{
"description": "Henry J. Pfungst [1844-1917], Cleveland Square, London",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "?",
"sortorder": 6
},
{
"description": "Castle Smith, London",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "By 1909",
"sortorder": 7
},
{
"description": "Grandson of Benjamin West, Jr., to his widow",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "Probably 1848-",
"sortorder": 9
},
{
"description": "Benjamin West, Jr. [1772-1848], to his grandson",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "1820-by 1848",
"sortorder": 10
},
{
"description": "Benjamin West [1738-1820], London, to his son, Benjamin West, Jr.",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "c. 1770-1820",
"sortorder": 11
}
],
"find_spot": null,
"related_works": [],
"former_accession_numbers": [],
"did_you_know": "Born in colonial America, West eventually became a court painter to George III of England.",
"early_education_description": null,
"artlens_description": null,
"description": "West was the first American artist to study in Italy, where he spent three years before permanently settling in London. He so admired the artistic ideals of the Italian Renaissance master Raphael that he named his eldest son after him, and he imitated Raphael\u2019s celebrated Madonna of the Chair when composing this tender double portrait of his wife and child.",
"external_resources": {
"wikidata": [
"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60513099"
],
"internet_archive": [
"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1927.393-elizabeth-shewell-we"
]
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "The Bequests of Mary Warden Harkness,\" Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15 (February 1928): 43-50.",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Benjamin West, Series IV. Inventory cards, 1859-1971, M. Knoedler & Co. Records, box 127, Getty Research Institute.",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Connoisseur (Feb. 1909): 115",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Connoisseur (Feb. 1909): 115",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Connoisseur (Feb. 1909): 115",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Connoisseur (Feb. 1909): 115",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Connoisseur (Feb. 1909): 115",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "W.M.B. Berger Charitable Trust, and Denver Art Museum. 600 Years of British Painting : The Berger Collection. Denver, [Chailey]: Denver Art Museum ; [Vine House] (distributor), 1999.",
"page_number": "Mentioned p. 272.",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "\"Bequest of Mrs. Charles W. Harkness.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 4 (1917): 63.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 63",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136090"
},
{
"citation": "F. A. W. \u201cThe Bequests of Mary Warden Harkness: A Tribute and an Accounting.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 2, pt. 2 (February 1928): 41\u201350.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 41; Mentioned: p. 43",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137106"
},
{
"citation": "W. M. M. \u201cPaintings in the Harkness Gift.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 2, pt. 2 (February 1928): 51\u201357.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 51",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137107"
},
{
"citation": "Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 13",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n21"
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 532",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n98"
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 160",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n184"
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 160",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n184"
},
{
"citation": "\u201cA Check List. American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 1 (January 1973): 21\u201335.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 35, no. 185",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152465"
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 198",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n218"
},
{
"citation": "Adams, Henry. What's American about American art?: a gallery tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 42 - 43",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Franklin, David. Director's Choice: The Cleveland Museum of Art. London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd., 2012.",
"page_number": "Mentioned, p. 49; reproduced, front cover (detail) and p. 48.",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 44",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Klein, Shana. \"Bound and Boarded: Policing Native Motherhood in US Art and Culture.\" The Art Bulletin 106, n. 2 (June 2024): 119-143.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 124, fig. 5",
"url": ""
}
],
"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.393",
"images": {
"annotation": null,
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.393/1927.393_web.jpg",
"width": "890",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "515554",
"filename": "1927.393_web.jpg"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.393/1927.393_print.jpg",
"width": "3387",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "6602921",
"filename": "1927.393_print.jpg"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.393/1927.393_full.tif",
"width": "3626",
"height": "3640",
"filesize": "39621584",
"filename": "1927.393_full.tif"
}
},
"alternate_images": [],
"creditline": "The Charles W. Harkness Gift",
"image_credit": null,
"sketchfab_id": null,
"sketchfab_url": null,
"gallery_donor_text": "Leigh and Mary Carter Gallery",
"athena_id": 109245,
"creators": [
{
"id": 2553,
"description": "Benjamin West (American, born The Thirteen Colonies, 1738\u20131820)",
"extent": null,
"qualifier": null,
"role": "artist",
"biography": null,
"name_in_original_language": null,
"birth_year": "1738",
"death_year": "1820",
"use_in_caption": true,
"include_extent": false,
"weight": 1
}
],
"legal_status": "accessioned",
"accession_date": "1927-12-20T00:00:00",
"sortable_date": 1765,
"date_added_to_oa": null,
"date_text": "c. 1770",
"collapse_artists": false,
"on_loan": false,
"recently_acquired": false,
"record_type": "object",
"conservation_statement": null,
"has_conservation_images": false,
"cover_accession_number": null,
"is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
"impression": null,
"alternate_titles": [
"Mrs. West with Raphael West",
"Mrs. West and Her Son Raphael"
],
"is_highlight": true,
"updated_at": "2026-07-21 11:12:34.635000"
}
}