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Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael
The Cleveland Museum of Art · The Charles W. Harkness Gift
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Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael

c. 1770
Benjamin West (American, born The Thirteen Colonies, 1738–1820) visual detail
ArtistBenjamin West (American, born The Thirteen Colonies, 1738–1820)
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Provenance

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1927-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

1916-1927

Edward S. Harkness [1874-1940], New York, NY, to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1916

Mary Warden Harkness [1864-1916], New York, NY, by bequest to her brother-in-law Edward S. Harkness

1911-1916

Charles W. Harkness [1860-1916], New York, NY, by bequest to his wife Mary Warden Harkness1

Until 1911

(M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, sold to Charles W. Harkness)

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Henry J. Pfungst [1844-1917], Cleveland Square, London

By 1909

Castle Smith, London

Source provenance text

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Edward S. Harkness [1874-1940], New York, NY, to the Cleveland Museum of Art Mary Warden Harkness [1864-1916], New York, NY, by bequest to her brother-in-law Edward S. Harkness Charles W. Harkness [1860-1916], New York, NY, by bequest to his wife Mary Warden Harkness1 (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, sold to Charles W. Harkness) Henry J. Pfungst [1844-1917], Cleveland Square, London Castle Smith, London Grandson of Benjamin West, Jr., to his widow Benjamin West, Jr. [1772-1848], to his grandson Benjamin West [1738-1820], London, to his son, Benjamin West, Jr.

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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). Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963). The American Portrait. Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA (organizer) (September 14-October 31, 1965). American Masters. Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI (organizer) (September 14-October 19, 1966). CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 29-December 17, 2006). 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.

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Sourced Overview Evidence

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.

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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 10 structured provenance events · 5 structured exhibitions.

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