In Tate Britain
In Tate Britain
Biography
Benjamin West, (October 10, 1738 – March 11, 1820) was a British-American artist who painted famous historical scenes such as The Death of Nelson, The Death of General Wolfe, the Treaty of Paris, and Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky.
Entirely self-taught, West soon gained valuable patronage and toured Europe, eventually settling in London. He impressed King George III and was largely responsible for the launch of the Royal Academy, of which he became the second president (after Sir Joshua Reynolds). He was appointed historical painter to the court and Surveyor of the King's Pictures.
West also painted religious subjects, as in his huge work The Preservation of St Paul after a Shipwreck at Malta, at the Chapel of St Peter and St Paul at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, and Christ Healing the Sick, presented to the National Gallery.
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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
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Benjamin West Cleombrotus Ordered into Banishment by Leonidas II, King of Sparta
1768 -
Benjamin West Pylades and Orestes Brought as Victims before Iphigenia
1766 -
Benjamin West Sketch for ‘The Installation of the Order of the Garter’
c.1787 -
Benjamin West Lady Beauchamp-Proctor
1778 -
Benjamin West Sketch for ‘The Ascension’
c.1782 -
Benjamin West Sketch for ‘St Paul Shaking off the Viper’
1786 -
Benjamin West The Golden Age
1776 -
Benjamin West The Bard
1778
Artist as subject
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Gilbert Stuart Benjamin West, P.R.A.
?exhibited 1781
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