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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

Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons

Notable Works

Erasistratus the Physician Discovers the Love of Antiochus for Stratonice
The Death of General Wolfe

Artworks

27 artworks

The Golden Age

June 4, 1777

Rinaldo Rescued from Armida

1766–1800

King Lear and Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 4, Scene 7)

ca. 1783

General Wolff

1781

The Death of General Wolfe (September 13, 1759)

after 1776

Hector taking leave of Andromache: the Fright of Astyanax

1766

"Off, off, you lendings–Come unbutton here" (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4)

1793

Panthea Stabs Herself beside the Corpse of Abradatas

Turkey

Maternity

1784

Anotomaical Description of the Hand and the Wrist

Study for the Crucifixion

1788

Study for "Alexander III, King of Scotland, Saved from a Stag by Colin Fitzgerald"

1784

Benjamin West

1818

Benjamin West (fragment from a portrait)

1818

The Angel at the Tomb of Christ

ca. 1812

Scene at Margate

Sarah Ursula Rose

1756

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

1809

Moses Shown the Promised Land

1801

Hagar and Ishmael

1776, reworked 1803

The Damsel and Orlando

ca. 1793

West, Benjamin

Biography

Notable Works

Artworks

The Golden Age

Rinaldo Rescued from Armida

King Lear and Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 4, Scene 7)

General Wolff

The Death of General Wolfe (September 13, 1759)

Hector taking leave of Andromache: the Fright of Astyanax

"Off, off, you lendings–Come unbutton here" (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4)

Panthea Stabs Herself beside the Corpse of Abradatas

Turkey

Maternity

Anotomaical Description of the Hand and the Wrist

Study for the Crucifixion

Study for "Alexander III, King of Scotland, Saved from a Stag by Colin Fitzgerald"

Benjamin West

Benjamin West (fragment from a portrait)

The Angel at the Tomb of Christ

Scene at Margate

Sarah Ursula Rose

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

Moses Shown the Promised Land

Hagar and Ishmael

The Damsel and Orlando

Panthea Stabs Herself beside the Corpse of Abradatas

The Finding of the Body of Clytemnestra