Benjamin West

(1738–1820) amerikansk målare

Benjamin West (USA, 1738–1820) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Benjamin West belongs to the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’ in this site’s history of art.

Benjamin West was born in Springfield Township and died in London. Benjamin West trained at Yale University. Benjamin West worked in New York City, Rome, and London. Wikidata associates Benjamin West with Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Benjamin West became a member of Royal Academy of Arts, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Académie des beaux-arts. Benjamin West was awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The students included William Charles Ross, William Alfred Delamotte, and John Trumbull.

The best-known works include ‘Erasistratus the Physician Discovers the Love of Antiochus for Stratonice’ and ‘The Death of General Wolfe’. The works belong mainly to the genres history painting, portrait, and religious painting. The catalogue has 250 works by Benjamin West with free images. The dated works span the years 1744–1839. Works by Benjamin West are held by several collections, among them Yale Center for British Art, Royal Collection, National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, and Detroit Institute of Art. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Louis Gustave Taraval, Francesco Maggiotto, Fredrika Eleonora von Düben, John Singleton Copley, and Hubert Maurer.

• Neoclassicism
• The Death of General Wolfe
• General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian
• The Death of Nelson
• American Commissioners of the Preliminary Peace Negotiations with Great Britain