Lot Essay
We are grateful to Allen Staley for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.
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Study of the artist's children in an oval, playing with a dog (recto), subsidiary sketches and signatures (verso)
Details
Benjamin West, P.R.A. (Springfield, Pennsylvania 1738-1820 London)
Study of the artist's children in an oval, playing with a dog (recto), subsidiary sketches and signatures (verso)
extensively inscribed 'Raphael West/ Benjamin/ West/1774 Raphael/ Raphael West/ Raphael West' (verso)
pencil, pen and brown ink
7 ¼ x 7 ½ in. (18.4 x 19.1 cm.); and Study of a baby's head, pencil, also by West
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Study of the artist's children in an oval, playing with a dog (recto), subsidiary sketches and signatures (verso)
extensively inscribed 'Raphael West/ Benjamin/ West/1774 Raphael/ Raphael West/ Raphael West' (verso)
pencil, pen and brown ink
7 ¼ x 7 ½ in. (18.4 x 19.1 cm.); and Study of a baby's head, pencil, also by West
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Provenance
The artist, and by descent to
Mrs Claire Francis; Christie's, London, 14 March 1967, lot 36.
Mrs Claire Francis; Christie's, London, 14 March 1967, lot 36.
Literature
i) H. von Erffa and A. Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, New Haven and London, 1986, p. 460, under no. 541.