Benjamin West: A Biography
by Alberts, Robert C
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395262895
- ISBN 13
- 9780395262894
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. Cloth, xvi, 525 pages, [24] leaves of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Age toning. Dust jacket, with moderate edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. First full-length biography of "The Father of American Art." "This biography covers Benjamin West (1738-1820), known as the?Father of American Art?. Including more than 75 illustrations, this book spotlights the life of West and provides a fresh view of eighteenth and early nineteenth century life in Philadelphia, Rome, London, and Paris. The author also provides portraitures of the artists of the brilliant years of British painting--among them Reynolds, Gainsborough, Angelica Kauffmann, Hoppner, Fuseli, Constable, Lawrence, and Turner--and the titled patrons and collectors of the period, as well describing the struggles for control of the Royal Academy." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 077401
- Title
- Benjamin West: A Biography
- Author
- Alberts, Robert C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0395262895
- ISBN 13
- 9780395262894
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; European / 6. Neo-Classical & Romantic; American / 3. Neo-Classical & Romantic; Genre & Subject / History & Myth; Movements / Neo-Classicism;
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