![]() Benjamin West was an autodidact while excelling at the arts, "he had little education and, even when president of the Royal Academy, could scarcely spell" (Hughes, 70).įrom 1746 to 1759, West worked in Pennsylvania, mostly painting portraits. West told John Galt, with whom, late in his life, he collaborated on a memoir, The Life and Studies of Benjamin West (1816, 1820) that, when he was a child, Native Americans showed him how to make paint by mixing some clay from the river bank with bear grease in a pot. ![]() The family later moved to Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, where his father was the proprietor of the Square Tavern, still standing in that town. West was born in Springfield, Pennsylvania, in a house that is now in the borough of Swarthmore on the campus of Swarthmore College, as the tenth child of an innkeeper. He was the second president of the Royal Academy in London, serving from 1792 to 18 to 1820. Pylades and Orestes Brought as Victims before Iphigeniaīuy Fine Art Prints | Greeting Cards | iPhone Casesīenjamin West, RA (Octo– March 11, 1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence. Portrait Of Raphael West And Benjamin West Jr The Women at the Sepulchre (The Angel at the Tomb of Christ)Ĭicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedesįranklin Drawing Electricity from the SkyĬhrist Showing A Little Child As The Emblem Of Heaven The Woman Clothed with the Sun Fleeth from the Persecution of the Dragon Study for 'The Apotheosis of the Princes Octavius and Alfred' (Buckingham Palace) Pyrrhus when a Child, brought before Glaucias Pylades and Orestes Brought as Victims to Iphigenia Portrait of George, Prince of Wales, and Prince Frederick, later Duke of York Oliver Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament King Charles II landing on the Beach at Dover General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian Genius Calling Forth the Fine Arts to Adorn Manufactures and Commerce Kleombrotos sent into Exile by Leonidas IIĪlexander the Great's confidence in his physician Philip of Acarnania.Īlfred the Great dividing his Loaf with the PilgrimĪlfred the Third, King of Mercia, visiting William d'AlbanacĪngels Announcing the Birth of Our SaviorĬertificate of attendance at a course of lectures on anatomyĬhryses invoking the Vengeance of Apollo against the GreeksĬornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, shewing her Children as her only Ornaments
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