Gilbert StuartUSA, 1755–1828Portrait of Benjamin West
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Portrait of Benjamin West is a 1781 portrait painting by the American artist Gilbert Stuart depicting his fellow painter Benjamin West. He is portrayed with sharply drawn features and a faraway look in his eyes, and dressed as a fashionable gentleman of the era.
The Pennsylvania-born West had settled in Britain during the 1760s and became well-known for his Neoclassical history paintings, receiving frequent royal commissions from George III. Stuart had travelled to London later and from 1777 was a pupil of his, one of a number of American artists to study under West. West was later elected as the second President of the Royal Academy in succession to Joshua Reynolds while Stuart returned to become a leading portraitist in the United States.
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The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1781 held at Somerset House in London, where it attracted his first public review where a critic said it "was an excellent portrait of Mr. West, indeed I do not know a better one in the room". Today it is in the collection of the Tate Britain, having been given to the nation in 1853. Stuart also produced a later, different Portrait of Benjamin West, which is now in the National Portrait Gallery.
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