id: 129300 accession number: 1952.17 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.17 updated: 2023-12-08 09:03:27.799000 George III, 1783. Benjamin West (American, 1738–1820). Oil on canvas; framed: 152 x 127 x 9.5 cm (59 13/16 x 50 x 3 3/4 in.); unframed: 126.5 x 101 cm (49 13/16 x 39 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Robbins 1952.17 title: George III title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1783 creation date earliest: 1783 creation date latest: 1783 current location: 204 Colonial American creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Robbins 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: 152 x 127 x 9.5 cm (59 13/16 x 50 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 126.5 x 101 cm (49 13/16 x 39 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: "B. West. 17[?]3" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Heritage Kingston opening date: 1973-06-03T04:00:00 Heritage Kingston. Agnes Etherington Art Center/ Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (organizer) (June 3-October 27, 1973). title: The Dye is Now Cast, 1774 - 1776 opening date: 1975-04-19T04:00:00 The Dye is Now Cast, 1774 - 1776. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, Washington, DC (organizer) (April 19-November 16, 1975). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * London, The Royal Academy of Arts, (1783 (73?)). see Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their Work from its Foundation in 1769 to 1904; see von Erffa and Staley's entry on painting for citation; if 1783, no. 73, p. 214. * The Inaugural Exhibition, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (6 June - 20 September 1916). listed p. 44, cat. no. 163, mistitled Portrait of the Duke of York. * Heritage Kingston, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario (3 June - 28 October 1973). cat. no. 26, pp. 34-35, illus. p. 34. * "The Dye is Now Cast" The Road to American Independence, 1774-1776, The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. (19 April - 16 November 1975). cat. no. 92, illus. p. 146. * The World Turned Upside Down, Yorktown Victory Center, Yorktown, VA (9 May - 31 December 1981). * British New York 1664-1783, Museum of the City of New York, New York (15 April - 27 November 1983). illus. inside pamphlet in color. --- PROVENANCE Dr. T. Fisher, Sidcup, Kent, England date: 1910 footnotes: citations: (S.T. Smith & Son, London, England) date: footnotes: citations: (Vose Gallery, Boston, MA) date: 1914 footnotes: citations: Otto Miller, Cleveland, OH date: 1919 footnotes: citations: Elsa Woolworth Miller, Cleveland, OH date: footnotes: citations: (Sale: Kende Galleries at Gimbel Brothers, New York, October 14, 1944) date: October 14, 1944 footnotes: citations: Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Robbins, Shaker Heights, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1952 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1952- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "A Check List: American Paintings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no.1 (January 1973). page number: Reproduced: p.35, no.186 url: www-jstor-org.ingallslibrary.idm.oclc.org/stable/25152465?seq=15#metadata_info_contents "Kende Sales." The Art Digest (October 1, 1944). page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p.20 (misidentified as "Duke of York") url: Freed, Kenneth J. "How George III Helped the U.S." The Bridgeport Connecticut Post (August 17, 1975). page number: Reproduced (unpaginated) url: Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de. Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers 1776-1790. Edited by Stanley J. Idzerda. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1977. page number: Reproduced: p.336 url: Sotheby's, London. British Paintings. July 10 and July 17, 1985. page number: Mentioned under Lot 54 url: Erffa, Helmut von, and Allen Staley. The Paintings of Benjamin West. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p.466 url: Robertson, Bruce. "Frederic A. Whiting: Founding the Museum with Art and Craft." In Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Edited by Evan H. Turner. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p.46 url: Bailyn, Bernard. The Great Republic: A History of the American People. Vol 1. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1992. page number: Reproduced: p.224 url: Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. page number: Reproduced: p.258 url: Hedberg, Gregory. Yanks Paint Brits: From Benjamin West to Nelson Shanks, from King George III to the Princess of Wales. Exh. Cat. New York, N.Y.: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1996. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p.8 url: Denver Art Museum. 600 Years of British Painting: The Berger Collection. Exh. Cat. Denver, CO: Denver Art Museum, 1998. page number: Mentioned: p.140 url: Griffin, Patrick. America's Revolution. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2013. page number: Reproduced: p.44 url: Ilchman, Frederick, Thomas S. Michie, C. D. Dickerson, and Esther Bell. Casanova: The Seduction of Europe. Boston, MA: MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2017. page number: Reproduced: P. 195, fig. 99 url: Gengler, Matthew. "You Ask, We Answer." Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 59, no.5 (September/October 2019), 20. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 20. url: archive.org/details/CMAMM2019-05/page/n9/mode/2up --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.17/1952.17_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.17/1952.17_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.17/1952.17_full.tif