Background
Clinedinst, Benjamin West was born in 1860 in Woodstock, Virginia, United States. Son of Barnet M. and Mary C. (South) Clinedinst.
Clinedinst, Benjamin West was born in 1860 in Woodstock, Virginia, United States. Son of Barnet M. and Mary C. (South) Clinedinst.
Educated Virginia, Military, Institute. Art education at École des Beaux Arts. Paris; pupil of Cabanel and Bonnât.
Specialty genre pictures and portraits. Illustrator of books of Hawthorne, Stevenson, Parkman, Cable, Page, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, et cetera Later portraits of Theodore Roosevelt, Admiral Peary, General Curtis Lee, Edward Echols, General East. West. Nichols.
Married Emily Gertrude Waters, June 5, 1888. Children: Josephine Herwig, Wendel Waters.