Benjamin West
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Object Details
- Attribution
- James Smith, 1749 - 1794
- Sitter
- Benjamin West, 10 Oct 1738 - 11 Mar 1820
- Provenance
- Provenance: Robert Mylne, London, 1889. (Scott and Fowles, New York); Mrs. Ben Ali Haggan; bequest to Margaret Hall School, Versailles, Kentucky; gift 1980 to NPG
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Margaret Hall Foundation
- 1770
- Object number
- NPG.80.136
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Stretcher: 54 x 47cm (21 1/4 x 18 1/2")
- Frame: 67 x 59.8 x 5.7cm (26 3/8 x 23 9/16 x 2 1/4")
- See more items in
- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Benjamin West: Male
- Benjamin West: Visual Arts\Artist\Portraitist
- Benjamin West: Visual Arts\Art instructor
- Benjamin West: Visual Arts\Artist\Painter\History painter
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.80.136
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4d2971b3f-45cd-4a3c-a8de-402277942931
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