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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
View of Honeoye Lake, Ontario County, New York State
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Born in London, England in 1769 as the elder son of Neo-Classical painter Benjamin West, (1733-1820), and his wife, Elizabeth Shewell, (1737-1817), Raphael was a student of his father and became a painter in classical style of aristocratic genre, figure, portrait and religious subjects. He was also a lithographer.
He spent most of his life in England and was an intimate friend of artist William Dunlap, while the latter was studying in London.
Raphael West was well known for (showing 500 of 1382 characters). |
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