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Benjamin West Drawing Of The Death Of Cicero - Framed ink drawing on brown paper of the killing of Cicero. Benjamin West (1738-1820) was America's most famous successful expatriate painter and described as the ”father of American painting” and became the first American artist to gain international fame. He was known for his large-scale and realistic historical genre paintings as well as his drawings of historical subjects. Supposedly, he first learned pigment making from local Indians. Provenance: This drawing was exhibited at the Deerfield Academy in the 1960s in an exhibit titled ”Faces”. It was gifted by Charles Russell (Cousin to Charles French of the Lincoln Memorial) to his daughters and then to the Deerfield Academy. Dimensions: 11.5” x 9” Image size, 20” x 15.5” Overall