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Benjamin West, P.R.A. (Swarthmore, PA 1738-1820 London)
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Benjamin West, P.R.A. (Swarthmore, PA 1738-1820 London)

Paetus and Arria

Closed27 January 2010

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Benjamin West, P.R.A. (Swarthmore, PA 1738-1820 London)
Paetus and Arria
signed and dated 'Benj.-West 1770' (upper right)
oil on canvas
36 x 30 in. (91.5 x 76.2 cm.)

Offered by his sons, Raphael and Benjamin, to the United States in 1826.
Artist's sale; (+) Robins, London, 22-25 May 1829, lot 161 (70 gns to Rothschild).
with Appleby Brothers, London.
Robert D. Childs, Boston, 1956.
Dr. Simon Stone, Manchester, New Hampshire, acquired in London, by 1960.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 21 July 1989, lot 197.

Specialist note

The subject of the present work is taken from Pliny's Letters, III, 16.

Two other versions of the same subject by West are known, one at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (op. cit., no.38), and the other, location unknown, dating from circa 1781 (op. cit., no. 40).