id: 109245 accession number: 1927.393 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.393 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:09.424000 Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael, c. 1770. Benjamin West (American, 1738–1820). 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 title: Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1770 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1775 current location: 204 Colonial American creditline: The Charles W. Harkness Gift copyright: --- culture: America, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Benjamin West (American, 1738–1820) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 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). title: Style, Truth and the Portrait opening date: 1963-10-01T04:00:00 Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963). title: The American Portrait opening date: 1965-09-14T04:00:00 The American Portrait. Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA (organizer) (September 14-October 31, 1965). title: American Masters opening date: 1966-09-14T04:00:00 American Masters. Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI (organizer) (September 14-October 19, 1966). title: CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits opening date: 2006-08-29T00:00:00 CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 29-December 17, 2006). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'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 The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1927- footnotes: citations: Edward S. Harkness [1874-1940], New York, NY, to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1916-1927 footnotes: citations: Mary Warden Harkness [1864-1916], New York, NY, by bequest to her brother-in-law Edward S. Harkness date: 1916 footnotes: *
Mary Warden Harkness's will states: “I give and bequeath to my husband’s 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.”
citations: Charles W. Harkness [1860-1916], New York, NY, by bequest to his wife Mary Warden Harkness1 date: 1911-1916 footnotes: *
1The Knoedler inventory cards document the sale of the painting (stock no. F 411) to Harkness in November 1911.
citations: (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, sold to Charles W. Harkness) date: Until 1911 footnotes: citations: Henry J. Pfungst [1844-1917], Cleveland Square, London date: ? footnotes: citations: Castle Smith, London date: By 1909 footnotes: citations: Grandson of Benjamin West, Jr., to his widow date: Probably 1848- footnotes: citations: Benjamin West, Jr. [1772-1848], to his grandson date: 1820-by 1848 footnotes: citations: Benjamin West [1738-1820], London, to his son, Benjamin West, Jr. date: c. 1770-1820 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Bequests of Mary Warden Harkness," Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15 (February 1928): 43-50. page number: url: " page number: url: Benjamin West, Series IV. Inventory cards, 1859-1971, M. Knoedler & Co. Records, box 127, Getty Research Institute. page number: url: The Connoisseur (Feb. 1909): 115 page number: url: The Connoisseur (Feb. 1909): 115 page number: url: The Connoisseur (Feb. 1909): 115 page number: url: The Connoisseur (Feb. 1909): 115 page number: url: The Connoisseur (Feb. 1909): 115 page number: url: "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 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 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 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 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 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 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: Franklin, David. The Cleveland Museum of Art. London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd., 2012. page number: Reproduced: p. 48 - 49, front cover url: 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: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.393/1927.393_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.393/1927.393_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.393/1927.393_full.tif