Scene at Margate

Scene at Margate by Benjamin West

Medium

Pen, brown ink, and white chalk on blue laid paper

Dimensions

4 1/2 x 7 in. (11.4 x 17.8 cm)

Classification

Drawing

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Janos Scholz, 1954

Accession Number

54.199

Tags

Human FiguresHousesFlagsCarriages

About the Artist

Benjamin West · 17381820

Benjamin West, born on October 10, 1738, in Springfield, Pennsylvania, emerged as one of the most influential painters of his era despite being entirely self-taught. Growing up in a Quaker family in colonial America, West displayed prodigious talent from childhood, creating portraits and religious scenes with materials gifted by local patrons. By his late teens, he had garnered enough support to t...

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