Accession number
PML 146385, leaf 098
Creator
West, Benjamin, 1738-1820.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Item mounted on leaf 98 of v. 9 of an extra-illustrated copy of D.E. William's The life and correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence (London : Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831).
Docketed on verso, with note, "Benjamin West about Sig. a Crescembini's painting"; addressed to the recipient at "Toms Coffee House".
Docketed on verso, with note, "Benjamin West about Sig. a Crescembini's painting"; addressed to the recipient at "Toms Coffee House".
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.5 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Expressing his opinion of a painting by a "Pittrice de Professione" sent to him by Powell, concluding that, though the painting is a "pleasing one", "the stile of art it exhibits would not please in this country to give her sufficient patronage".
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