The Sheridan Family

{{Short description|Painting by Benjamin West}} {{Infobox artwork | image_file=File:Sheridan family, Benjamin West.jpg | backcolor= | painting_alignment= | image_size=380px | title= The Sheridan Family | artist= [[Benjamin West]] | year= c.1776 | type=[[Oil painting|Oil on canvas]], [[portrait painting]] | height_metric= 227.9 | width_metric= 166.6 | height_imperial= | width_imperial= | metric_unit=cm | imperial_unit=in | museum=[[Walker Art Gallery]] | city=[[Liverpool]] }} '''''The Sheridan Family''''' is a c.1776 [[portrait painting]] by the Anglo-American artist [[Benjamin West]]. It depicts the Irish playwright [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan]] and his English wife [[Elizabeth Ann Linley]], a noted singer, with their young son [[Thomas Sheridan (soldier)|Thomas]].<ref>Highfill, Burnim & Langhans p.323</ref><ref>''A Nest of Nightingales – Thomas Gainsborough, the Linley Sisters''. Dulwich: Picture Gallery, 1988. p. 71</ref> West had moved to Britain after a stay in [[Rome]]. He enjoyed success with his [[history painting]]s such as ''[[The Death of General Wolfe]]'' as well as portraits.

Today the painting is in the collection of the [[Walker Art Gallery]] in Liverpool, avinf been acquired in 1933.<ref>https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/family-group-98763/search/keyword:elizabeth-linley/page/1/view_as/grid</ref>

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==Bibliography== * Alberts, Robert C. ''Benjamin West; A Biography''. Houghton Mifflin, 1978. * Highfill, Philip H, Burnim, Kalman A. & Langhans, Edward A. ''A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800, Volume 13''. SIU Press, 1993.

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