ID: 700000506 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000506	Record Type: Movable Work
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The American School (oil painting (visual work); Matthew Pratt (American, 1734-1805); 1765; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 97.29.3)

Note: The picture depicts a scene in the London studio of Benjamin West, who is generally agreed to be the figure standing at the left. Based on comparisons to self-portraits, Pratt is the man at the easel, an accomplished portrait painter. The identities of the other artists represented in the picture remain uncertain, but they are younger and they draw rather than paint. The composition explores the academic tradition as carried out among Americans in late-eighteenth century London.

Titles:

The American School (preferred,C,U,D,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

oil painting (visual work) [300033799] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1765

Creator Display:

Matthew Pratt (American, 1734-1805) [preferred,VP]

painter Pratt, Matthew (American painter, 1734-1805) [500022721]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 97.29.3

Credit Line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1897

Display Materials: oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: 91.4 x 127.6 cm (36 x 50 1/4 in.)

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

portraits

Specific Subjects:

	group portrait [300124525]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

	self-portrait [300124534]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

	painting studio [300312294]
	.....(Agents Facet, Organizations (hierarchy name), organizations (groups), studios (organizations), <studios by function>) (AAT)

	Benjamin West (American painter and draftsman, 1738-1820, active in Great Britain) [500026989]
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

	artists (visual artists) [300025103]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in the arts and related occupations>, <people in the arts>, <people in the visual arts and related occupations>, <people in the visual arts>) (AAT)

	Matthew Pratt (American painter, 1734-1805) [500022721]
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

Provenance: the artist's son, Nathan Pratt, Philadelphia (until 1805); the artist's great-granddaughter, Rosalie V. Tiers Jackson, Philadelphia (by 1887); Samuel Putnam Avery Sr., New York (by 1896–97)

Inscriptions: Signature: [at lower left of the painting on the easel]: M. Pratt / ad. 1765

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
The American School	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 22 May 2012

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 15 March 0218, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11797