Benjamin West

1738–1820 · Neoclassicism

Benjamin West was an American-born British painter who specialised in history painting, creating such works as The Death of Nelson, The Death of General Wolfe, the Treaty of Paris, and Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky.

39 paintings

The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (1791, retouched 1803)
The Death of Procris (1770, retouched 1803)
Queen Philippa at the Battle of Neville's Cross (c. 1789)
Portrait of a Man (1790–99)
Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael (c. 1770)
George III (1783)
British Manufactory; A Sketch (1791)
Portrait of George, First Lord Lyttelton (1772)
The Conversion of St. Paul (1786)
Destruction of the Beast and the False Prophet (1804)
Queen Charlotte (1777)
The Bathing Place at Ramsgate (1788)
Elizabeth West (née Shewell), and Her son Raphael (1773)
Study of the Lamentation on the Dead Christ (1785)
The Cave of Despair (1772)
Paetus and Arria (1766)
Rebecca Receiving the Bracelet at the Well (1775)
Cymon and Iphigenia (1766)
The Battle of La Hogue (1778)
The Death of Chatham (1778)
Milkmaids in St. James's Park, Westminster Abbey Beyond (1801)
Christ Showing the Little Children as the Emblem of Heaven (1815)
Portrait of George, Prince of Wales, and Prince Frederick, later Duke of York (1778)
The Stolen Kiss (1819)
St. Peter Released from Prison (1800)
King Lear (1788)
Pylades and Orestes Brought as Victims before Iphigenia (1766)
Cleombrotus Ordered into Banishment by Leonidas II, King of Sparta (1768)
Benjamin West (c. 1776)
Telemachus and Calypso (c. 1809)
Cupid, Stung by a Bee, Is Cherished by his Mother (1774)
Maria Hamilton Beckford (Mrs. William Beckford) (1799)
Elizabeth, Countess of Effingham (c. 1797)
The Battle of La Hogue (1778)
Dr. Samuel Boude (1755/1756)
Mary Bethel Boude (Mrs. Samuel Boude) (1755/1756)
Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill) (1776)
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (1791)
Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky (1816)