Harvard Art Museums > 1943.163: Self-Portrait Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Self-Portrait (Benjamin West) , 1943.163,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/230416. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.163 People Benjamin West, American (Springfield, PA 1738 - 1820 London, England) Title Self-Portrait Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date c. 1818 Places Creation Place: North America, United States Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/230416 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on wood panel Dimensions 92.1 x 74.3 cm (36 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: l.l.: By...and Dec 10 17...Royal Academy London. Provenance Recorded Ownership History Probably part of the artist's estate at his death and sold by his sons through Robins, London, June 20-22, 1829; Percy A. Rockefeller, New York; to his wife, Isabel S. Rockefeller, New York, 1935; Ehrich Galleries, New York; Knoedler & Co. Inc, New York, 1942; sold to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1942; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop Accession Year 1943 Object Number 1943.163 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Lionel Cust, History of the Society of Dilettanti (London, England, 1898), pp. 230-231 City Art Museum of St. Louis, An Exhibition of Early American Portraiture 1750-1850. Supplement to the Bulletin of the Saint Louis Museum, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO, 1930), p. 10, no. 42 The Percy A. Rockefeller Loan Collection of American Historical Portraits, exh. cat., University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA, 1939), p. 20, no. 33 Portraits of Twelve American Artists by Themselves and Their Friends, exh. cat., Knoedler Galleries (New York, NY, 1942), no. 2 Fogg Art Museum and Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Real and Ideal in American Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, Summer 1948), cat. 3 Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 13, ill. Ann C. van Devanter, "Benjamin West and His Self-Portraits", The Magazine Antiques (April 1973), pp. 764-771, p. 770 John Dillenberger, Benjamin West: The Context of His Life's Work With Particular Attention to Paintings with Religious Subject Matter, Trinity University Press (San Antonio, TX, 1977), p. 7, fig. 3 Ann Uhry Abrams, The Valiant Hero: Benjamin West and Grand-Style History Painting, Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, D.C, 1985), pp. 22-24, fig. 7, and note 11, p. 212 Ann Uhry Abrams, The Valiant Hero: Benjamin West and Grand-Style History Painting, Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, DC, 1985), pp. 22-24, 212, fig. 7, and note 11, p. 212 Helmut von Erffa and Allen Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1986), pp. 452-53, no. 529 Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 518-19, cat. 485, ill. Exhibition History Early American Portraiture, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 11/01/1930 - 11/30/1930 The Percy A. Rockefeller Loan Collection of American Historical Portraits, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 11/14/1939 - 12/31/1939 Portraits of Twelve American Artists by Themselves and their Friends, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 03/01/1942 - 03/31/1942; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 04/01/1942 - 04/15/1942; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 05/01/1942 - 06/01/1942 Real and Ideal in American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1948 - 09/01/1948 American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972 The Persistence of Memory: Continuity and Change in American Cultures, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/29/1995 - 05/13/2001 For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004 Subjects and Contexts Google Art Project Related Works Straus.7972 Artist of original: Benjamin West X-radiograph(s) of "Self-Portrait" Photographs Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. 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