West, Benjamin

The death of General Wolfe, Alfred, Cromwell and William the Conqueror appear in these prints after Benjamin West, alongside...

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The death of General Wolfe, Alfred, Cromwell and William the Conqueror appear in these prints after Benjamin West, alongside biblical episodes and classical stories. The Pennsylvania-born painter lived from 1738 to 1820, settled in London and became President of the Royal Academy. Nineteenth-century reproductions show Christian subjects and Pylades and Orestes, and an earlier sheet shows Columbus with a leader in Cuba. The printing dates run from 1794 to the 1850s, so some appeared in West's lifetime and others after it.

The death of General Wolfe, Alfred, Cromwell and William the Conqueror appear in these prints after Benjamin West, alongside biblical episodes and classical stories. The Pennsylvania-born painter lived from 1738 to 1820, settled in London and became President of the Royal Academy. Nineteenth-century reproductions show Christian subjects and Pylades and Orestes, and an earlier sheet shows Columbus with a leader in Cuba. The printing dates run from 1794 to the 1850s, so some appeared in West's lifetime and others after it.

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