Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd

  • Oil on canvas
  • 49 × 39 inches · 1245 × 990 mm
  • Signed lower left: ‘B. West 1764’

Collections

  • Sir Sampson Gideon; 
  • Hon Maria Smith, daughter of the above;
  • Sir Culling Eardley Eardley, son of the above;
  • Isabella Maria Fremantle, daughter of the above;
  • Sir Francis Fremantle, son of the above;
  • Fremantle sale, Christie’s London, 14 December 1945, lot.35;
  • Christie’s London, 26 March 1953, lot.102;
  • The Old Print Shop, New York, in 1957;
  • Christie’s New York, 30 September 2005, lot.103;
  • Private collection, New York to 2021

Literature

  • Gustav Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Arts in Great Britain, London, 1857, p.281;
  • Helmut Von Erffa and Allen Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, New Haven and London, 1986, cat. no.623, p.508.

Private collection, USA