Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
unframed: 66.5 × 66.3 cm · framed: 88 × 87.5 × 9 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
American Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
The Charles W. Harkness Gift
Accession Number
1927.393
Tags
male
About this artwork
West was the first American artist to study in Italy, where he spent three years before permanently settling in London. He so admired the artistic ideals of the Italian Renaissance master Raphael that he named his eldest son after him, and he imitated Raphael’s celebrated Madonna of the Chair when composing this tender double portrait of his wife and child.