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Benjamin West
Benjamin Westc. 1776
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Benjamin West
- Creator: after Benjamin West
- Date Created: c. 1776
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 75.8 x 63 cm (29 13/16 x 24 13/16 in.) framed: 102.9 x 89.5 x 10.2 cm (40 1/2 x 35 1/4 x 4 in.)
- Provenance: (Tooth Brothers, London), sold 15 May 1919 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection on 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1942 to NGA. [1] The name of the seller and the date of purchase are recorded in a copy of _Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Collected by Thomas B. Clarke_, Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library). Correspondence about the sale was with G. Stanley Sedgwick, who seems to have had a business arrangement with the Tooth Brothers and with Clarke. His letters of 14 and 24 April and 5 May 1919 precede the shipping notice from Hensel, Bruckmann & Lorbacher dated 13 May 1919, announcing the arrival of the painting in New York (NGA curatorial files). Additional correspondence indicates that Sedgwick hoped to locate other works by Gilbert Stuart for Clarke's collection and was searching for _The Skater_ [NGA 1950.18.1] and portraits of the Hartigans [NGA 1942.8.16], Luke White [NGA 1942.8.28], and the Pollocks [NGA 1942.8.18 and 1942.8.19] (NGA Clarke collection files).
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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