Benjamin West
a biography
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Author
Publication
1978 - Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
131,250 words, Guess
Page Count
525 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL4729230M
- ISBN-100395262895
- OCLC Control Number4003948
- Internet Archivebenjaminwestbiog00albe
- Library of Congress Control Number78017241
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- Goodreads7059391
- 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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