Posthumous James Wolfe as a young man
Benjamin West (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738 - London 1820)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
Unknown
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
600 x 700 mm
Order this imageCollection
Quebec House, Kent
NT 529238
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, General James Wolfe (1727-1759) as a young man by Benjamin West PRA (Swarthmore 1738 - London 1820), 1760 - 1820. A posthumous portrait of the General.
Provenance
By descent in the Warde family of Squerryes, Kent; purchased by the National Trust by private treaty with the help of a grant from the Art Fund and from a fund set up by the late Simon Sainsbury, 2017.
Makers and roles
Benjamin West (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738 - London 1820), artist