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Study for 'The Apotheosis of the Princes Octavius and Alfred' (Buckingham Palace)
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1738-1820
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Width: 14.6 cm
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Lawrence, Holburne Museum of Art & Bath & England, 22/03/2005-19/06/2005
Zwei Jahrhunderte Englische Malerei: Britische Kunst und Europa 1680 bis 1880, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 21/11/1979-27/01/1980
1776: the British story of the American Revolution, National Maritime Museum, London, 14/04/1976-02/10/1976 ...More
Neo-Classical Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1972-December 1972
Angelika Kauffmann und ihre Zeitgenossen, Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Bregenz and Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 23/07/1968-01/02/1969
Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, American Federation of the Arts, Washington, D.C. and nine cities in the USA, 1951
Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949 - 1950
catalogue untraced, San Francisco, 1938 ...Less
Literature
no. 51
Illus. p. 85
Zwei Jahrhunderte Englische Malerei: Britische Kunst und Europa 1680 bis 1880, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1979-1980
cat. no. 134
Zwei Jahrhunderte Englische Malerei: Britische Kunst und Europa 1680 bis 1880, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1979-1980
no. 134
Illus. repr. ...More
1776: the British story of the American Revolution, National Maritime Museum, London, 14 April - 2 October 1976, 1976
cat. no. 121
Gidley, Mick, A catalogue of American paintings in British public collection, Exeter: University of Exeter, 1974
p. 15
Angelika Kauffmann und ihre Zeitgenossen, Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Bregenz and Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 1968 / 1969
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 56
Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949-50
no. 58 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: BW.
Inscription: [...]sign for the picture of the Apotheosis of the / [...]ces Alfred and Octavius, painted by command / [...]is Majesty George the Third, and engraved by / Robert Strange. / Benjn. West //
Inscription: D[...] / Prin[...] / of H / Sir //
Inscription: No 5
Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)
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