CC0 · no rights reserved
Helen Brought to Paris
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Benjamin West was in a complicated position as painter to King George III. He was an American who had made his reputation with classical scenes painted for English aristocrats and royalty. Yet, in a court ruled by strict etiquette, West and the king had many frank conversations about the tensions brewing in the American colonies.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineHelen Brought to Paris. 1776. Benjamin West, born Springfield, PA 1738-died London, England 1820. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase. CC0.
