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Death on the Pale Horse is the title of three different versions of a work by Benjamin West.The first of these is a large drawing from 1783, which has been in the collection of the Royal Academy of Art in London since 1784.
Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag by the Intrepidity of Colin Fitzgerald is a 1786 history painting by the Anglo-American artist Benjamin West. [1] It depicts a legendary scene in Scottish history in which the life of Alexander III of Scotland was saved during a hunting expedition from an attack by a stag by Colin Fitzgerald, who founded the Highland Clan Mackenzie.
The Anglo-American painter and President of the Royal Academy Benjamin West exhibited his Death on the Pale Horse at the Salon. [1] The peace was short-lived, followed by the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars the following year. The next exhibition was the Salon of 1804, held the year Napoleon declared himself emperor.
Death on the Pale Horse, Benjamin West, 1817. According to Edward Bishop Elliott's interpretation of the Four Horsemen as symbolic prophecy of the history of the Roman Empire, the second seal is opened and the Roman nation that experienced joy, prosperity, and triumph is made subject to the red horse which depicts war and bloodshed—civil war.
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Britannia had existed as a national personification of Great Britain and the British people since ancient times, while West's previous work as a painter had developed a deep sense of British nationalism, as seen in his Death of General Wolfe and other works painted after his appointment as court painter. West was "not directly involved in the ...
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 painting is an example of a history painting, but as West had done in the past with works such as in his 1770 The Death of General Wolfe, he strays from the truth and embellishes many elements for added dramatic effect. Franklin was in his forties and with his son when he conducted the experiment, but West paints him with white hair and ...