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Peter Beckford (d. 1735), (painting)
Object Details
- Notes
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
- Gardner & Feld, "American Ptgs," Metropolitan Museum,. Vol. I, 1965, pg. 34-35.
- Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 75.
- Summary
- Seated portrait of Peter Beckford, dressed in clothing from the mid-seventeenth century. In his right hand he holds a French map of Jamaica, as an acknowledgment of his birthplace.
- Data Source
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
- Date
- 1797
- Control number
- IAP 36120024
- painter
- West, Benjamin 1738-1820
- Subject
- Beckford, Peter
- Type
- Paintings
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Owner/Location
- Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 50.232.1
- Topic
- Portrait male--Waist length
- Object--Written Matter--Map
- Record ID
- siris_ari_41813
- Usage
- Usage conditions apply
