Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Title:
Elizabeth West (née Shewell), and Her Son Raphael
Date:
ca. 1773
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
26 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches (67.3 x 67.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.112
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
gaze | smile | portrait | costume | headgear | tondo | child | mother | boy | son | motherhood | woman
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Robert C. Alberts, Benjamin West : A Biography, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1978, P. 397, p. 12 in unnumered plate section between pp. 78and 79, NJ18 W52 A6 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 242-243, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 70, ND466 .G67 (YCBA)

Loyd Grossman, Benjamin West and the struggle to be modern, Merrell, London: New York, 2015, p. 108, 109, NJ18.W52 G76 2015 (YCBA)

Helmut von Erffa, The Paintings of Benjamin West, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1986, p. 458, no. 536, NJ18 W52 A12 +E73 Oversize (YCBA)

John Wilmerding, Essays in honor of Paul Mellon, collector and benefactor : Essays, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC & Hanover, NH, 1986, p. 278, fig. 5, N7442.2 M455 1986 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:449