3-000-026 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Portrait of a Young Man, c1840. This miniature portrait is of an unknown young man in a black coat, waistcoat, and collar. Under the mount the corner of the thin rectangular ivory support is signed in ink "B. West." This may be the sitter's, rather than the artist's name as the costume of the subject suggests a date later than 1820, the year Benjamin West died.