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West, Benjamin - Biography & Artworks | Artheon Museum

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West, Benjamin

1738–1820

Nationality: United States

Born: 1738, Springfield Township

Died: 1820, London

Gender: male

Movements

Neoclassicism

Romanticism

Occupations

architectural draftsperson

painter

artist

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Biography

Comment on works: Mythology, history, religious

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Notable Works

Maternity

Artworks

27 artworks

Highlighted Work(1)

Museum Highlight

Maternity

1784

All Artworks

Omnia Vincit Amor, or The Power of Love in the Three Elements

1809

The Damsel and Orlando

ca. 1793

Hagar and Ishmael

1776, reworked 1803

Sarah Ursula Rose

1756

Moses Shown the Promised Land

1801

Benjamin West (fragment from a portrait)

1818

Benjamin West

1818

Telemachus and Calypso

c. 1809

Maria Hamilton Beckford (Mrs. William Beckford)

1799

Elizabeth, Countess of Effingham

c. 1797

The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise

1791

The Battle of La Hogue

1778

Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill)

1776

Cupid, Stung by a Bee, Is Cherished by his Mother

1774

Dr. Samuel Boude

1755/1756

Mary Bethel Boude (Mrs. Samuel Boude)

1755/1756

The Death of Procris

1770, retouched 1803

Queen Philippa at the Battle of Neville's Cross

c. 1789

Portrait of a Man

1790–99

The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise

1791, retouched 1803

Christus zegent de kinderen

Hector taking leave of Andromache: the Fright of Astyanax

1766

Rinaldo Rescued from Armida

1766–1800