A history of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States (1918)
Dunlap, William, 1766-1839, Bayley, Frank W. (Frank William), 1863-1932, Goodspeed, Charles E. (Charles Eliot), 1867-1950 · Boston, C. E. Goodspeed & co. · leaf 68
of the fame and the instructions of West are literallyincalculable. In the year 1753, and at the age of fifteen, Benjamin Westcommenced portrait and historical painting. The first portrait,regularly undertaken as such from a sitter, was that of Mrs.Ross, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. But it is our… … GALT AS BIOGRAPHER 33 John West, the father of Benjamin, was of that familysettled at Long Crendon, in Buckinghamshire, which producedColonel James West, the friend and companion in arms ofJohn Hampden. Upon one occasion, in the course of a con-versation in Buckingham Palace, respecting his picture…
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