Publication

1978 - Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

131,250 words, Guess

Page Count

525 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
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  • LibraryThing3913030

Classifications

  • DDC759.13
  • LCCND237.W45 A86

Description

This biography covers Benjamin West (1738-1820), known as the?Father of American Art?. Including more than 75 illustrations, this book spotlights the life of West and provides a fresh view of eighteenth and early nineteenth century life in Philadelphia, Rome, London, and Paris. The author also provides portraitures of the artists of the brilliant years of British painting--among them Reynolds, Gainsborough, Angelica Kauffmann, Hoppner, Fuseli, Constable, Lawrence, and Turner--and the titled patrons and collectors of the period, as well describing the struggles for control of the Royal Academy.

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Other Editions

  • Benjamin West: a biographyHoughton Mifflin1978-01-01

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