Raphael West and Benjamin West Jr., Sons of the Artist
Framed: 48 1/2 x 42 x 3 1/2 inches (123.19 x 106.68 x 8.89 cm)
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The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, Royal Academy of Arts, London, May 1–June 17, 1797, no. 189 (as Portrait of Two Brothers).
The Inner Circle, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisc., September 15–October 23, 1966, no. 99.
Benjamin West and His American Students, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., October 16, 1980–January 4, 1981, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, January 30, 1981–April 19, 1981, unnumbered.
Benjamin West: American Painter at the English Court, Baltimore Museum of Art, June 4–August 20, 1989, no. 40 (as Raphael and Benjamin West, Sons of the Artist).
Mrs. Albert F. West, London;
to (Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 19 March 1898, lot 144 [as Portraits of the Same, When Older, the One in Brown Coat, the Other with Yellow Vest, Standing Together]);
to Obach, 1898;
William Rockhill Nelson, Kansas City, Mo., before 1915;
to Ida H. Nelson (wife of William Rockhill Nelson), Kansas City, Mo., by bequest, 1915;
to Laura Nelson Kirkwood (daughter of Ida H. Nelson), Kansas City, Mo., by bequest, 1921;
to Laura Nelson Kirkwood Residuary Trust, Kansas City, Mo., 1926;
to NAMA, 1944.
Possibly Morning Post (London), May 1797, clipping, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Archives.
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, exh. cat. (London: Cooper and Graham, 1797), 7 (as Portrait of Two Brothers).
“A Correct Catalogue of the Works of Mr. West,” Public Characters of 1805 (London, 1805), 566 (as Sketch of His Two Sons, When Young Men).
“A Correct List of the Works of Mr. West,” Universal Magazine (London) 3 (1805), 530 (as Ditto, When Young Men).
“A Correct Catalogue of the Works of Benjamin West, Esq.,” La Belle Assemblée; or, Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine (London) 4 (1808), supplement, 17 (as Do. When Men).
John Galt, “A Catalogue of the Works of Mr. West,” in The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq., President of the Royal Academy of London (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820), pt. 2:228 (as Do. When Young Men).
Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, London, March 19, 1898, lot 144 (as Portraits of the Same, When Older, the One in Brown Coat, the Other with Yellow Vest, Standing Together).
Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their Work from Its Foundation in 1769 to 1904 (London: Henry Graves and Co., 1906), 7:216 (as Sons of the Painter).
“Oak Hall Open Wednesday,” [Fall 1927–Spring 1928], clipping, Scrapbook, NAMA Archives (as Portrait of Two Men).
Catalogue: Laura Nelson Kirkwood Trust of Paintings, Etchings, Antique Furniture, Oriental Rugs, Silverware, Antique War Weapons, and Old Ornaments (Kansas City, Mo.: Fred C. Vincent, John E. Wilson, Fidelity National Bank & Trust Co., 1944), 5 (as Portrait of Raphael West and Benjamin West, Sons of Benjamin West, P.R.A.).
Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 258 (as Raphael and Benjamin West, Sons of the Artist).
John Gage, “Magilphs and Mysteries,” Apollo 80 (July 1964), 39 (as Portrait of Raphael and Benjamin West).
The Inner Circle, exh. cat. (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Center, 1966), unpaginated, fig. 99.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds. Arts of the Occident. Vol. 1. Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts. 5th ed. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 255 (as Raphael and Benjamin West, Sons of the Artist).
John Dillenberger, Benjamin West: The Context of His Life’s Work with Particular Attention to Paintings with Religious Subject Matter (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1977), app. 1:172, 194.
Robert C. Alberts, Benjamin West: A Biography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), 226, pl. (as Portrait of Raphael and Benjamin West, Sons of the Artist).
Joseph Farington, The Diary of Joseph Farington, ed. Kenneth Garlick and Angus Macintyre (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978), 3:722, 739, 743–44, 749–51.
Dorinda Evans, Benjamin West and His American Students, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, 1980), 103, fig. 78.
Helmut von Erffa and Allen Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986), 134, 234–35, 460–61 (as Raphael West and Benjamin West, Jr.).
Robert Rosenblum, The Romantic Child: From Runge to Sendak (London: Thames and Hudson, 1988), 35–36, 59n37, 63 (as Raphael West and Benjamin West, Jr.).
Benjamin West: American Painter at the English Court, exh. cat. (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1989), 22–23, 114 (as Raphael and Benjamin West, Sons of the Artist).
Henry Adams, Handbook of American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1991), 21.
Kristie C. Wolferman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Culture Comes to Kansas City (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993), 27.
Arlene Katz Nichols, Likenesses and Landskips: A Portrait of the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat. (New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 2002), 71.
