America / c. 1770
Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael as painting (America · c. 1770).
Born in colonial America, West eventually became a court painter to George III of England.
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The museum identifies this painting as oil on canvas and credits Benjamin West (American, born The Thirteen Colonies, 1738–1820).
The museum's collection notes: 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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