Family, Students, and Legacy: Benjamin West's Workshop and the Shaping of an American School of Art
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Family, Students, and Legacy:Benjamin West’s Workshop and the Shaping of an
American School of Art
Abram FoxUniversity of [email protected]
abramfox.com
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Matthew Pratt, The American School, 1765Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Sir Thomas LawrenceBenjamin West, P.R.A.1810Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Benjamin WestThe Artist and His Son Raphael
1773Yale Center for British Art,
Paul Mellon Collection
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Benjamin WestRaphael West and Benjamin West Jr.,
Sons of the Artistca. 1796
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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Benjamin West and John Trumbull, The Battle of La Hogue, 1778, retouched 1806Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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First Generation (1763-1785)
Matthew PrattAbraham DelanoyHenry Benbridge
Charles Willson PealeJoseph WrightGilbert Stuart
Ralph Earl
Second Generation (1780-1795)
John TrumbullMather BrownRaphael West
Benjamin West, Jr.Thomas Spence Duché
William DunlapGeorge William West
Henry SargentRobert Fulton
Third Generation (1800-1820)
Washington AllstonRembrandt Peale
Abraham G.D. TuthillEdward G. Malbone
Charles Bird KingSamuel Lovett Waldo
Thomas SullySamuel F.B. Morse
Charles Robert LeslieGilbert Stuart Newton
Generational Structure of Benjamin West’s Workshop
Benjamin West
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Gilbert StuartSelf-Portrait
ca. 1778Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Washington AllstonSelf-Portrait
1805Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Gilbert StuartSelf-Portrait
ca. 1778Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Washington AllstonSelf-Portrait
1805Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Benjamin West, The Artist and His Family, ca. 1772Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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