Benjamin West
American, born The Thirteen Colonies, 1738–1820
Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael, c. 1770
Oil on canvas
66.5 × 66.3 cm (26 ¼ × 26 in.)
The Cleveland Museum of Art
The Charles W. Harkness Gift
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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