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Benjamin West
[American Neoclassical Painter, 1738-1820]
| • Relationships: | West's many students included John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, Mather Brown, John Downman, Ralph Earl, Charles Robert Leslie, John Linnell, Matthew Pratt, Henry Sargent, Edward Savage, John Trumbull and Washington Allston. | | • Browse all: American artists |
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Original works by Benjamin West available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
2 works by Benjamin West online
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
The Sepulchre, 1782
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
Apollo's Enchantment, 1807
The Conversion of St. Paul, ca.1786
Benjamin West at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
5 works by Benjamin West
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
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Fright of Astyanax, pen and ink, 1797
Louvre Museum La Fayette Database of American Art, Paris NEW!
Benjamin West at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
10 works by Benjamin West online
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City
Maternity, chalk drawing, 1784
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
5 works online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings/watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Benjamin West at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
13 works by Benjamin West
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 NEW!
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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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 Fund for UK Museums
Alexander III of Scotland rescued from the Fury of a Stag, 1784-86
The Golden Age, 1776
Sir Joseph Banks, 1771
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Chryseis restored to her father, ca.1776
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Joshua passing the River Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant, 1800
Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Study for "Christ Rejected"
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania
The Demonic Boy, drawing, 1815
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Erasistratus the Physician Discovers the Love of Antiochus for Stratonice
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) NEW!
Portrait of Sir Robert Stuart, Lord of the Admiralty
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
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Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Mary Thompson as Rachel at the Well, 1775
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Ophelia and Laertes
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
British Manufactory; A Sketch
Mrs. West with Raphael West
George III
Head of a Screaming Man
Woman and Man Playing Cards
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
7 works by or related to the artist
Cummer Museum of Art
The Honorable Mrs. Shute Barrington, 1808
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Adonis
Denver Art Museum / Berger Collection, Colorado
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
Mother and Child, possibly Mrs Benjamin West Jr, with Benjamin III West
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
Jeremiah Sees a Flowering Almond Branch
Isaiah's Lips Purified by Fire
Benjamin West in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Oliver Cromwell Dissolving the Long Parliament, 1782
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Diana, Wife of Thomas Wyld of Sheen, 1766
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
Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design
Angel of the Resurrection (image 26)
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
The Death of Lord Nelson in the Cockpit of the Ship 'Victory'
The Immortality of Nelson
National Museums Liverpool, UK
The Death of Nelson
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2 portraits viewable online
New-York Historical Society
2 paintings online
Norwich Museums, England
Venus comforting Cupid stung by a bee
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Portrait of Prince Octavius
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Penn's Treaty with the Indians
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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5 works by Benjamin West online
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
Agrippina and Her Children Mourning over the Ashes of Germanicus
Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
The Golden Age
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Benjamin West at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Parthenon, Tennessee
Venus and Cupid
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Fidelia and Speranza
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville
Juno Receiving the Cestus from Venus, 1771
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
Portrait of Mrs. Benjamin West and Her Son, Raphael
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
King Lear in the Storm, 1792
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
The Raising of Lazarus
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
3 works online
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
Smithsonian Institution 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)
Commercial Galleries:
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Professional Tools:
Artprice
Pictures from Image Archives:
Benjamin West in the Art Renewal Center
Benjamin West in the Artchive
The Death of General Wolfe, 1770
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Death on the Pale Horse
Benjamin West at CGFA
13 paintings
Web Gallery of Art
5 paintings
WebMuseum 
A Domestic Affliction
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Artyzm
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
ImageNETion
The Athenaeum
21 works online by West
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
Romeo and Juliet, 1778
Other Web Sites:
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
UK Government Art Collection
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Benjamin West
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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"
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