Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Art and Artists of Our Time
We give two illustrations from the 'voluminous work of West, the Thetis' -bringing the Armor to Achilles, which is a good example of his treatment of classical subjects, and the picture of himself and his family, here reduced from the engraving in line and stipple made in 1779 by George Siegmund and J ohann Gottlieb Pacius. This picture shows West in the most favorable light. The group of the mother and child is very skilfully managed, and the g1ace of the woman that can subdue even the austerities of the Quaker dress to its charm is well contrasted with the rigid formality of the two old men, the father and uncle of the artist, Quakers to the backbone. Behind them stands West himself, palette in hand, while his eldest son leans upon the arm of his mother's chair.
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