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BENJAMIN WEST, P.R.A. (SPRINGFIELD 1738-1820 LONDON)

Lot 428
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Lot 428 | BENJAMIN WEST, P.R.A. (SPRINGFIELD 1738-1820 LONDON)
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
BENJAMIN WEST, P.R.A. (SPRINGFIELD 1738-1820 LONDON)
Portrait of Sir William Young (1749/50-1815), 2nd Baronet, and later Lieutenant Governor of Tobago, half-length, seated in a brown suit
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 25 ¼ in. (76.5 x 64.2 cm.)




Provenance

Sarah Elizabeth Ottley, née Young, (1748-1825), sister of the sitter, and by descent to,
William Ottley, from whom acquired on 3 May 1920 by the following,
with Agnews, London, where acquired om 17 June 1920 by the following,
with Henry Reinhardt & Son, New York, where acquired on 20 September 1920 by the following,
with Agnews, London, where acquired on 29 December 1920 by the following,
with Charles W. Kraushaar Galleries, New York, where acquired in 1923 by,
Concord Art Association, Concord, MA.
with Vose Galleries, Boston, by 1975.
George C. Seybolt (1914-1993), Dedham, MA; his deceased sale, Northeast Auctions, New Hampshire, 24 February 2008, lot 1749.
with William Vareika Fine Arts Ltd., Newport, RI,
Acquired by Irene Roosevelt Aitken, née Boyd (1931-2025) from the above in August 2011.



Literature

H. Watts, 'The Benjamin West Exhibition at the Art Alliance Philadelphia', Art and Archaeology, January 1922, p.22, illustrated.
'Concord Acquires Benjamin West Portrait', Art News, June 1923, p. 1, illustrated.
H. von Erffa and A. Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, New Haven and London, 1986, p. 570, no. 725.



Exhibited

Philadelphia, The Art Alliance, Memorial Exhibition: Benjamin West, 28 November 1921 - 2 January 1922, no. 21.
Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Exhibition of paintings and drawings by Benjamin West and engravings representing his work, 1922, no. 16.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, on loan (according to a label on the reverse).
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Benjamin West: 1738-1820, 1938, no. 38.
Newport, RI, William Vareika Fine Arts Ltd., The New Port Gallery of American Art, Gilbert Stuart and his Time, An Exhibition to Benefit The Gilbert Stuart Birthplace and Museum, Saunderstown, Rhode Island, 4 December 2010 - 6 March 2011, unnumbered.
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