id: 109245 accession number: 1927.393 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.393 updated: 2023-04-26 11:23:49.483000 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 * 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.
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.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Benjamin West 1738-1820 (1938), cat. no. 18, not illus.
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.
Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, 10th Anniversary Exhibition (October, 1946), cat. no. 12, not illus.
Dayton, Dayton Art Institute, The Artist and His Family (3 March-April, 1950), cat. no. 38.
Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Style, Truth, and the Portrait (1 October-10 November 1963) cat. no. 46, illus.
Greensburg, PA, The Westmoreland Country Museum of Art, The American Portrait (19 September-31 October 1965)
Kalamazoo, MI, Kalamazoo Art Center, Paintings by American Masters: Fifth Anniversary Exhibition (14 September-19 October 1966), illus. p. 6. --- 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: Born in colonial America, West eventually became a court painter to George III of England. digital description: wall 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’s celebrated Madonna of the Chair when composing this tender double portrait of his wife and child. --- 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