Live Auction 2675Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolors Including an Important Canadian Collection and a Distinguished Private Collection
Benjamin West, P.R.A. (Springfield, Pennsylvania 1738-1820 London)
Lot 151 PROPERTY OF THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART, OHIO, SOLD TO BENEFIT ITS ACQUISITION FUND

Benjamin West, P.R.A. (Springfield, Pennsylvania 1738-1820 London)

Study of a chair and drapery for 'Mrs Peter Beckford'

Closed31 January 2013

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Benjamin West, P.R.A. (Springfield, Pennsylvania 1738-1820 London)
Study of a chair and drapery for 'Mrs Peter Beckford'
black and white chalk on blue paper
12 x 8½ in. (30.8 x 21.6 cm.)

Specialist note

The portrait of Mrs Peter Beckford, 1797, one of four half-lengths painted by West for William Beckford (see H. von Erffa and A. Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, New Haven and London, 1985, pp. 492-3, no. 593). Other drawings related to the portrait are at Swarthmore and the Morgan Library.