# Benjamin West

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/downman-john-racc212f0bc69aa/benjamin-west-rf9cc2a939c00c4>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [DOWNMAN, John](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/downman-john-racc212f0bc69aa>)
- Date: 1751-1800
- Technique: Black, white and red chalk with stump on laid paper, 225 x 177 mm

## Commentary

Downman was the most elegant of portrait painters of his age in chalk and watercolours.

## Related artworks

- [Ms. Downman](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/downman-john-racc212f0bc69aa/ms-downman-r33f6472c637464>)
- [The Children of Frederick and Ellen Ray of Abingdon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/downman-john-racc212f0bc69aa/the-children-of-frederick-and-ellen-ray-of-abingdon-r1ca85cc48420b2>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)