Benjamin West art links 

Benjamin West: Death of General Wolfe, 1770
Source: Wikimedia Commons (see "image archives" below)

Original works by Benjamin West available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Benjamin West at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
6 works online

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!

Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Portrait of George, Prince of Wales, and Prince Frederick, later Duke of York, 1778
Venus Consoling Cupid Stung by a Bee, ca.1802

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Fright of Astyanax, pen and ink, 1797

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!  

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston   NEW!
Drawings collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston   NEW!
Watercolor collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston   NEW!
Paintings collection online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh   NEW!

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Angel of the Resurrection, lithograoh

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa  
The Death of General Wolfe

Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
"Artist of the Month" profile

Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK

Benjamin West at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Tate Gallery, London, UK

The Royal Collection, London, UK

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  
Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Jacob Blessing Ephraim and Manasseh

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
General Thaddeus Kosciusko

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
The Demonic Boy, drawing, 1815

Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina
The Ascension, ca.1781-82

Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina
The Progress of Revealed Religion

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Portrait of Sir Robert Stuart, Lord of the Admiralty

Brooklyn Museum, New York City

Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Mary Thompson as Rachel at the Well, 1775

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio   NEW!
Hamlet: Act Iv, Scene V (ophelia Before The King And Queen)

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio   NEW!
Ann Allen, Later Mrs. John Penn

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
7 works by or related to the artist

Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida
The Honorable Mrs. Shute Barrington, 1808

Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Adonis

Denver Art Museum / Berger Collection, Colorado
4 works online

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK   NEW!

Falmouth Art Gallery, England
2 works online

Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York
Robert Fulton, 1806

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Death of Alexander, 1799

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi

Los Angeles County Museum of Art   NEW!
Portrait of a Lady

Los Angeles County Museum of Art   NEW!
Thetis Bringing the Armor to Achilles, 1804
Cymon and Iphigenia, 1773

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Study for "Christ Rejected"

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
6 works online

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)  

Museum of London, UK
Portrait of the artist and his family in their back garden, 1808-09

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK

National Museums Liverpool, UK
The Death of Nelson

National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2 portraits viewable online

New-York Historical Society
2 paintings online

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Venus and Europa, ca.1768

Norwich Museums, England
Venus comforting Cupid stung by a bee

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
Agrippina and Her Children Mourning over the Ashes of Germanicus

Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
The Golden Age

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)  

The Hepworth Wakefield, England

The Huntington Library, California

The Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee
Venus and Cupid, ca.1765
(Note: Images are generally larger than displayed on the museum's web page. Here is a link to the jpg image.)

The Walters Art Museum, Maryland   NEW!

Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Fidelia and Speranza

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City

University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
Belisarius Brought to His Family, ink drawing, 1784

University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville
Juno Receiving the Cestus from Venus, 1771

Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Three Ladies Making Music, 1798

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
The Raising of Lazarus

Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania

Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Woodmere Art Museum, Pennsylvania
The Fatal Wounding of Sir Philip Sidney, 1805

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Pharaoh and His Host Lost in the Red Sea, 1792

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Pharaoh and His Host Lost in the Red Sea

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Art Fund for UK Museums
7 works online when last checked

D'Outre Manche Database of British Art in French Public Collections

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  
Jeremiah Sees a Flowering Almond Branch
Isaiah's Lips Purified by Fire

La Fayette Database of American Art in French National Collections

Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 

Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Google Art Project
4 works online

Benjamin West at The Art Renewal Center

Benjamin West at The Artchive  
The Death of General Wolfe, 1770

Benjamin West at The Athenaeum  
22 works online by West

Benjamin West in the Web Gallery of Art  
5 paintings

Benjamin West in the WebMuseum  
A Domestic Affliction

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

California State University WorldImages Database  

Benjamin West at CGFA  
13 paintings

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

Rasiel's Wallpapers
(Click on the size of the scan you wish to view)
Ophelia and Laertes

RKD Netherlands Imagebase   NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions

State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site

The History Project at U.C. Davis  

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Apocalyptic Ideas in Old English Literature
Death on a Pale Horse, drawing, 1783

Franklin Electric Co.
Ben Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky, ca.1805

Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"

UK Government Art Collection

Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Benjamin West  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting

RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History  

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Artcyclopedia
"Celebrating Heroes; Celebrating Benjamin West"

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside The Boy Who Loved to Draw: Benjamin West look inside America's Old Masters: West, Copley, Peale and Stuart