Benjamin West
American, 1738 - 1820
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18th- and 19th-century English painter
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Telemachus and Calypso
Telemachus and Calypso
Benjamin West · c. 1809 · oil on canvas · Accession ID 2015.19.98
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The Adoration of the Shepherds
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Benjamin West · 1805 · pen and brown ink with brown wash and blue gouache heightened with white on wove paper mounted to board · Accession ID 1984.3.72
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This is my Beloved Son
This is my Beloved Son
Benjamin West · 1802 · lithograph · Accession ID 1980.45.1515
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Angel of the Resurrection
Angel of the Resurrection
Benjamin West · 1801 · pen-and-tusche lithograph · Accession ID 1947.7.135
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The Flight into Egypt
The Flight into Egypt
Benjamin West · c. 1800 · pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white gouache, on laid paper · Accession ID 1990.57.6
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Maria Hamilton Beckford (Mrs. William Beckford)
Maria Hamilton Beckford (Mrs. William Beckford)
Benjamin West · 1799 · oil on canvas · Accession ID 1947.17.23
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Elizabeth, Countess of Effingham
Elizabeth, Countess of Effingham
Benjamin West · c. 1797 · oil on canvas · Accession ID 1947.17.101
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The Crucifixion
The Crucifixion
Benjamin West · 1796/1797 · pen and brown and black ink with blue, black, and red chalk on laid paper · Accession ID 1984.3.73
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The Disobedient Prophet
The Disobedient Prophet
Benjamin West · 1793 · pen and black ink with wash heightened with blue and cream oil paint over chalk · Accession ID 1984.3.74
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The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise
Benjamin West · 1791 · oil on canvas · Accession ID 1989.12.1
Bibliography
1938
Sawitsky, William. "The American Work of Benjamin West." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 62, no. 4 (October 1938): 433-462.
1982
Abrams, Ann Uhry. "A New Light on Benjamin West's Pennsylvania Instruction." Winterthur Portfolio 17 (1982): 243-257.
1986
Von Erffa, Helmut, and Allen Staley. The Paintings of Benjamin West. New Haven and London, 1986.
1989
Benjamin West; American Painter at the English Court. Essay by Allen Staley. Exh. cat. The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1989.
1995
Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 316-317.