LC control no. | n 50003451 |
---|---|
Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | West, Benjamin, 1738-1820 |
Birth date | 1738 |
Death date | 1820 |
Found in | King, J.C.H. Woodlands artifacts from the studio of Benjamin West, 1738-1820, 1991: p. 35 (b. 1738; 3rd generation American of Quaker descent from Pennsylvania; painter) p. 36 (in his early 20s, established himself in the American colonies as a portrait painter; in 1760, traveled to Italy where he studied in part under the German neoclassical painter Anton Mengs before coming to London in 1763) |