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BIRTHPLACE OF BENJAMIN WEST, SWARTHMORE, PA.
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PUBLISHED BY VICTOR D. SHIRER, SWARTHMORE, PA.
BIRTHPLACE OF BENJAMIN WEST,
SWARTHMORE, PA.
Benjamin West was born in this house on
October 10, 1738, and died in London. Eng. on
March 1, 1820.
From painting portraits in Philadelphia for
a mere subsistence to becoming the painter to
the king of England, standing with Reynolds
and Lawrence in his profession, one of the
founders of the Royal Academy and its second
president, succeeding Reynolds, seems a bit of
romance rather than a statement of fact.
POSTCARD-
MAY 8
730 PM
Been down here for Mr & Mrs. John Doriglas
the day- had a mill
tripland saw a
lotty interesting op.
people and things-
Andrew
C. T. AMERICAN ART COLORED
CHIC
323 McDonald Ave
Mobile,
Ala.
