After Benjamin West, American
Attempting To Cover the Hickey He Got From Betsy Ross, ca. 1776
Oil on canvas
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Info about the named artist is pointed to by my comment and reply at another blog entry.
/// This oil’s title is ”Benjamin West.”
A self-portrait by him, I’d have guessed.
That may not be correct.
There are those who suspect
it was done in his style they attest.
/// So, some painter now known to no one
made a copy of work West had done.
Thus, we read ”After West.”
I assume West’s was best,
so why didn’t his self-portrait run?
/// With the first finger of his right hand,
Mr. West probes his swollen neck gland.
His lymph nodes are sore
and the collar he wore
Is constricting much more than he’d planned.