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- Title:
Elizabeth West (née Shewell), and Her Son Raphael [2024, YCBA]
- Former Title(s):
The Artist's Wife Elizabeth and Their Son Raphael
Mrs. Benjamin West and her Son Raphael
Mrs. West with Raphael West
Mrs. West and her son, Raphael
A portrait of a mother and child. [1770, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- ca. 1773
- Medium:
- 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
- Link to Frame:
- B1977.14.112FR
- Subject Terms:
- boy | child | costume | gaze | headgear | mother | motherhood | portrait | smile | son | tondo | woman
- Associated People:
- West, Raphael Lamar (1769–1850), history painter
West, Elizabeth (née Shewell, 1740–1814) - Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:449
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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) [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) [YCBA]
Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 70, ND466 G67 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Loyd Grossman, Benjamin West and the struggle to be modern, Merrell, London: New York, 2015, p. 108, 109, NJ18.W52 G76 2015 (YCBA) [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) [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) [YCBA]