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Benjamin West PRA (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.
Christ Rejected by Benjamin West, 1814, Oil on canvas, 200 x 260 in. (508.0 x 660.4 cm.), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, accession number 1878.1.9. [5]The composition of Study for "Christ Rejected" demonstrates West’s structuring of complex multi-figure scenes.
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.
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 ...
Its content is nonetheless preserved through a pair of replicas: an engraving by Henry Moses which captures the exact detail and composition of the original, and West's own full-color reinterpretation of the work when he included the original as the background of his later portrait of Wilmot, celebrating Wilmot's capacity as chief commissioner ...
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 ...
The neoclassical style oil on canvas painting Fidelia and Speranza portrays a scene from the epic poem The Faerie Queene, written by Edmund Spenser.Together Fidelia, representing faith, is holding the New Testament while her sister Speranza; representing hope, wait at the entry of the House of Holiness for the arrival of the Red Cross Knight.
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