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The Death of General Wolfe is a 1770 painting by Anglo-American artist Benjamin West, commemorating the 1759 Battle of Quebec, where General James Wolfe died at the moment of victory. The painting, containing vivid suggestions of martyrdom, broke a standard rule of historical portraiture by featuring individuals who had not been present at the ...
The Oath of Hannibal is a 1770 history painting by the Anglo-American artist Benjamin West. [1] It depicts the moment when the nine-year-old Hannibal is taken to a temple by his father Hamilcar Barca to swear an oath of eternal enmity to the Roman Republic.
Portrait of West from 1770, now housed in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Portrait of Benjamin West by Gilbert Stuart, 1785. In August 1763, West arrived in England, [8] on what he initially intended as a visit on his way back to America. [8] In fact, he never returned to America.
The Death of Nelson is a painting by the American artist Benjamin West dated 1806. In 1770, West painted The Death of General Wolfe. This was not an accurate representation of the event, but rather an idealisation, and it included people who were not present at the event. Nevertheless, it became very popular, and West painted at least five ...
West's The Death of General Wolfe, 1770. By showing the European Johnson restraining the aggressive actions of an indigenous auxiliary, the painting has been identified by some art historians as promoting European standards of honor and laws of war, in contrast to the traditional "warlike" values of indigenous warriors such as scalping and killing prisoners of war.
Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill) is a 1776 dual portrait by American painter Benjamin West, who specialised in historical painting and portraits. West was a co-founder of the Royal Academy in London , serving its president from 1792 to 1805 and again from 1806 to 1820.
West was a British-American painter, President of the Royal Academy of Arts, and an official painter at the Court of St. James. [2] He had risen to prominence through works such as The Death of General Wolfe, The Departure of Regulus, and Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus, which date from the decisive early years of his career between 1765 and 1772.
The painting was commissioned by Thomas Penn – William Penn's son – in 1770 or 1771 and completed in 1771–72. West was a local artist who was born in Springfield, Pennsylvania and grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Like Thomas Penn, West was born into a Quaker family.