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Benjamin West
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Moses Shown the Promised Land - Benjamin WestPrint
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General Johnson Saving the Wounded French Officer - Benjamin WestPrint
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Venus Lamenting the Death of Adonis - Benjamin WestPrint
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Cupid and Psyche - Benjamin WestPrint
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Jacob Blessing Ephraim and Manasseh - Benjamin WestPrint
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Queen Charlotte - Benjamin WestPrint
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Christ Showing A Little Child As The Emblem Of Heaven - Benjamin WestPrint
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The Death of Nelson, 21st October 1805 - Benjamin WestPrint
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Princes William and Edward - Benjamin WestPrint
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Helen Brought From Paris - Benjamin WestPrint
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Saul and the Witch of Endor - Benjamin WestPrint
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George III of the United Kingdom - Benjamin WestPrint
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The Immortality of Nelson - Benjamin WestPrint
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Mr. Robert Grafton and Mrs. Mary Partridge Wells Grafton - Benjamin WestPrint
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Pylades and Orestes Brought as Victims before Iphigenia - Benjamin WestPrint
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Cleombrotus Ordered into Banishment by Leonidas II, King of Sparta - Benjamin WestPrint
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Artist Biography
Benjamin West
West's The Death of General Wolfe (1770) broke a two-thousand-year convention by depicting a contemporary military event in modern dress rather than classical garb. The Royal Academy's president, Joshua Reynolds, tried to talk him out of it. The painting was a sensation, and the convention was broken for good.
He was born in Springfield, Pennsylvania, in 1738, a Quaker-raised boy from the colonies who became the second president of the Royal Academy in London, holding the post for twenty-eight years. He arrived in England in 1763 after studying in Italy and quickly gained the patronage of George III, serving as the king's historical painter from 1772 to 1801.
He trained a generation of American painters in London, including Gilbert Stuart, Charles Willson Peale, Samuel Morse and John Trumbull. Each returned to America and shaped the new nation's visual culture. West stayed in London and died there in 1820, at eighty-one.
He was born in Springfield, Pennsylvania, in 1738, a Quaker-raised boy from the colonies who became the second president of the Royal Academy in London, holding the post for twenty-eight years. He arrived in England in 1763 after studying in Italy and quickly gained the patronage of George III, serving as the king's historical painter from 1772 to 1801.
He trained a generation of American painters in London, including Gilbert Stuart, Charles Willson Peale, Samuel Morse and John Trumbull. Each returned to America and shaped the new nation's visual culture. West stayed in London and died there in 1820, at eighty-one.
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