Escuela americana; escuela; americana; educación; ilustración; Metropolitan Museum; siglo XVIII; ilustrado; interior - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 14:59:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Escuela americana; escuela; americana; educación; ilustración; Metropolitan Museum; siglo XVIII; ilustrado; interior - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The American school https://historylab.es/the-american-school/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-american-school Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:28 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-escuela-americana/ Interior of an American school during the 18th century, depicting various illustrated scenes relating to a more refined knowledge

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]]> The work reflects a scene in the London studio of Benjamin West, who is recognised as the figure on the left. Through comparisons with the self-portraits, Pratt is the man at the easel, an accomplished portraitist. The identities of others in the image remain uncertain, but they are young figures who draw rather than paint. The painterly composition echoes the academic tradition that was carried on among Americans in late 18th-century London

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