Benjamin West (1746-1817), c. 1805

| Anonymous
| watercolor on ivory
| 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 (8.89 x 6.99)
| inscribed, on verso of frame: ‘Benjamin West, Esq./Charleston/N.H./ Died Sept. 1817 aged about 70.’
| Bequest of Dwight Foster Dunn, 1937
| Weis 138

Ex. Coll.: Sitter; possibly to his niece Mary Maccarty Stiles; through the Stiles/Foster family to the donor.

Publications:
Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, s.v. ‘West, Benjamin.’

 

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