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Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael

c. 1770
(American, 1738–1820)
America
oil on canvas
Framed: 88 x 87.5 x 9 cm (34 5/8 x 34 7/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 66.5 x 66.3 cm (26 3/16 x 26 1/8 in.)
The Charles W. Harkness Gift 1927.393
Location: 204 Colonial American
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Born in colonial America, West eventually became a court painter to George III of England.

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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.
An oil painting, in a circle frame, of a woman and child with light skin tones. The woman's clothes fall in green folds with gold detailing and a grey, gold fringed cloth wrapped over her head. She holds the child, dressed in white, and their cheeks are pressed together as they both look at the viewer.

Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael

c. 1770

Benjamin West

(American, 1738–1820)
America

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