# The Sheridan Family

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Painting by Benjamin West

The Sheridan Family Artist Benjamin West Year c.1776 Type Oil on canvas, portrait painting Dimensions 227.9 cm × 166.6 cm (89.7 in × 65.6 in) Location Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

***The Sheridan Family*** is a c.1776 [portrait painting](/source/Portrait_painting) by the Anglo-American artist [Benjamin West](/source/Benjamin_West). It depicts the Irish playwright [Richard Brinsley Sheridan](/source/Richard_Brinsley_Sheridan) and his English wife [Elizabeth Ann Linley](/source/Elizabeth_Ann_Linley), a noted singer, with their young son [Thomas](/source/Thomas_Sheridan_(soldier)).[1][2] West had moved to Britain after a stay in [Rome](/source/Rome). He enjoyed success with his [history paintings](/source/History_painting) such as *[The Death of General Wolfe](/source/The_Death_of_General_Wolfe)* as well as portraits.

Today the painting is in the collection of the [Walker Art Gallery](/source/Walker_Art_Gallery) in Liverpool, avinf been acquired in 1933.[3]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Highfill, Burnim & Langhans p.323

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** *A Nest of Nightingales – Thomas Gainsborough, the Linley Sisters*. Dulwich: Picture Gallery, 1988. p. 71

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/family-group-98763/search/keyword:elizabeth-linley/page/1/view_as/grid](https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/family-group-98763/search/keyword:elizabeth-linley/page/1/view_as/grid)

## 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.

v t e Benjamin West Paintings The Cricketers (1763) Portrait of Robert Monckton (1763) General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian (1764–1768) Pylades and Orestes Brought as Victims before Iphigenia (1766) Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus (1768) The Departure of Regulus (1769) The Death of General Wolfe (1770) The Oath of Hannibal (1770) Penn's Treaty with the Indians (1771–1772) The Death of Chevalier Bayard (1772) Portrait of Joseph Banks (1772) The Wife of Arminius Brought Captive to Germanicus (1773) Daniel Interpreting to Belshazzar the Writing on the Wall (1775) Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (1776) Fidelia and Speranza (1776) Helen Brought to Paris (1776) The Sheridan Family (1776) The Battle of the Boyne (1778) The Battle of La Hogue (1778) Alfred the Great Dividing His Loaf with a Pilgrim (1779) Portrait of George III (1779) Portrait of Queen Charlotte (1779) Oliver Cromwell Dissolving the Long Parliament (1782) Treaty of Paris (1783) Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain in the Year 1783 (1812) Portrait of Dr Richard Price (1784) Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag (1786) The Institution of the Order of the Garter (1787) Edward III Crossing the Somme (1788) Edward III with the Black Prince after the Battle of Crécy (1788) King Lear in the Storm (1788) The Burghers of Calais (1789) Queen Philippa at the Battle of Neville's Cross (1789) Gentlemen Fishing (1794) Harvesting at Windsor (1795) Musidora and Her Two Companions (1795) Death on the Pale Horse (1796, 1817) Arethusa (1802) The Death of Nelson (1806) Portrait of Robert Fulton (1806) Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky (c. 1816) Portrayals The American School (1765 painting) Portrait of Benjamin West (1781 portrait) Portrait of Benjamin West (1785 portrait) The Royal Academicians in General Assembly (1795 painting) Portrait of Benjamin West (1810 portrait) Related Benjamin West Birthplace Square Tavern (boyhood home)

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