The American School
by Matthew Pratt
The Studio of Benjamin West.
Metropolitan Museum New York.
Another post in the occasional series of sculpture depicted in other mediums.
The picture depicts a scene in the London studio of Benjamin
West, who is generally agreed to be the figure standing at the left. Based on
comparisons to self-portraits, Pratt is the man at the easel, an accomplished
portrait painter. The identities of the other artists represented in the
picture remain uncertain, but they are younger and they draw rather than paint.
The composition explores the academic tradition as carried out among Americans
in late-eighteenth century London.
Matthew Pratt (1734–1805)
1765
91.4 x 127.6 cm.
Metropolitan Museum.
see - Susan Rather, “A Painter’s Progress: Matthew Pratt and ‘The
American School’”, Metropolitan Museum Journal 28
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