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	Benjamin West - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Benjamin West (October 10, 1738 – March 11, 1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American Revolution.
		In 1763, West moved to England, where he was commissioned by King George III to create portraits of members of the royal family.
		West is known for his large scale history paintings, which use expressive figures, colours and compositional schemes to help the spectator to identify with the scene represented.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benjamin_West (330 words)

	BENJAMIN WEST - LoveToKnow Article on BENJAMIN WEST
		According to a well-known story, he was sitting by the cradle of his sister's child, watching its sleep, when the infant happened to smile in its dreams, and, struck with its beauty, young Benjamin got some paper, and drew its portrait.
		The career thus begun was prosecuted amid many difficulties; but his perseverance overcame every obstacle, and at the age of eighteen he settled in Philadelphia as a portrait-painter.
		West's works, which fond criticism ranked during his life with the great productions of the old masters, are now considered as in general formal, tame, wanting that freedom of nature and that life which genius alone can breathe into the canvas.
	52.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WE/WEST_BENJAMIN.htm (659 words)

	WEst, Benjamin
		West, Benjamin (1738-1820) Artist: Benjamin West was born near Springfield, Pennsylvania on October 10, 1738.
		West went to London and established himself as a portrait painter.
		West remained a loyal patriot to the American cause, although the King of England remained his friend and patron until 1801.
	www.multied.com /bio/nn/West.html (269 words)

	Biography
		As a young man, West showed precocious artistic talent and was sent to Philadelphia in 1756 to study painting.
		At 20 years of age he was a successful portraitist in New York City and in 1760, through the assistance of friends, he sailed for Italy, where Neoclassicism was rapidly gaining ground.
		West visited most of the leading art cities of Italy and in 1763 went to London, where he set up as a portrait painter.
	www.wga.hu /bio/w/west/biograph.html (318 words)

	West - AMAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		West represented the moving story of with delicacy and classical restraint.
		Benjamin West was born in Springfield, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, on 10 October 1738.
		During his early career, West was primarily active as a portrait painter, and he continued to produce a steady stream of likenesses through the 1780s; later compositions especially show the influence of Reynolds.
	www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/west2.html (1506 words)

	Early American Paintings
		Benjamin West developed from a precocious but provincial artist in colonial Pennsylvania to the official painter at the court of King George III and the president of the Royal Academy in London.
		This project was to be West's greatest contribution to the history of religious painting, but the chapel decoration was never completed due to repeated changes in the organization of the interior and the sheer magnitude of the undertaking.
		West's reputation was solidified by his election as president of the Royal Academy in London, an office he held from 1792 to 1805.
	www.worcesterart.org /Collection/Early_American/Artists/west/biography/content.html (1801 words)

	BENJAMIN WEST 1738-
		Pennsylvania-born Benjamin West settled in London in 1763, where he became a key contributor to the establishment of history painting in Britain.
		The revived enthusiasm for classical antiquity to which West was introduced while studying in Rome from 1760-1763 remained part of his style after he settled in London and turned increasingly to subjects outside classical history and literature.
		And, like other artists of his generation, West became interested in the techniques of the Italian seventeenth -century painters, exemplified here by the landscape setting, the brilliant color of Mary Magdalene's orange-yellow dress, and by the radiant angel astride the entrance of the empty tomb.
	www.butlerart.com /pc_book/pages/benjamin.htm (623 words)

	Art Bulletin, The: Benjamin West, John Galt, and the biography of 1816
		West, he proclaimed, was "incontrovertibly the father of American painting." (2) Flexner's defensive tone suggests a complication, which Dunlap implicitly confronted in his first sentence on West, a flat declaration that the painter was "indigenous." The trajectory of West's career has always made his distinction as an American problematic.
		West eventually enlarged his sights with the guidance of modest fellow provincials: a governess who instructed the boy in ancient history and poetry and a gunsmith who urged West to look beyond portraiture to history painting, thereby licensing him to focus on a genre never fully accepted by Americans.
		West did not disappoint them; in a flash of recognition, according to Galt, he exclaimed: "My God, how like it is to a young Mohawk warrior!" (9) It seems unlikely that West had ever seen a Mohawk or any other Indian warrior, and his response was overdetermined, plotted in advance, perhaps, and surely embellished later.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0422/is_2_86/ai_n6140251 (1250 words)

	Benjamin West, PRA, by Agostino Aglio
		West, Benjamin 1738-1820, historical painter, was descended from an old family of Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, members of which went over to America with Penn in 1681.
		His father, John West, settled at Springfield in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1714; he married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Pearson, a quaker, and had a family of ten children, the youngest of whom was Benjamin, born on 10 Oct. 1738.
		West dropped his quaker habit and manner of speech soon after he settled in England, and, although both he and his wife had been brought up as quakers, they were married at the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields (2 Sept. 1765).
	www.antiqnet.com /detail,benjamin-west-pra,105006.html (1162 words)

	SAAM :: Have a Question? Find an Answer
		At the age of twenty-one, West went to Italy to further his art training, which was made possible by the financial assistance of wealthy friends and patrons, which his amiable nature was to win for him throughout his career.
		In 1792 West was appointed to succeed Sir Joshua Reynolds as president of the Royal Academy, a position he held, except for one year, for the rest of his life.
		West's fresh approach to history painting was not the only reason for his important place in American art.
	americanart.si.edu /search/artist_bio.cfm?StartRow=1&ID=5336 (541 words)

	Benjamin West (1738-1820), University of Pennsylvania Archives
		Benjamin West, son of Sarah Pearson and John West, was born in 1738 near Springfield in Chester (now Delaware) County, Pennsylvania.
		West's earliest professional work was in the line of portraiture; he was soon able to establish himself as a portrait painter in Philadelphia, and then in 1759 in New York City.
		As his fame grew, West became one of the founders of the Royal Academy in 1768, serving as its president from 1782 to 1815.
	www.archives.upenn.edu /histy/features/1700s/people/west_benj.html (401 words)

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		West's cabin was built of logs and stood on a wedge of ground at the intersection of a branch with McEIwain Creek on the same side of the present highway and not five hundred yards from the old Winnsmith house.
		West, according to the old tradition, was not at home when her husband arrived so he went into the yard and busied himself about some chores.
		West's body placed on a sled, and accompanied by Capt. Smith, they took it to the West home and there placed it in a grave, dug by Captain Smith, in the dooryard.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /mike_in_katy/benjaminwest.txt (3604 words)

	WebMuseum: West, Benjamin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One of the first American artists to win a wide reputation in Europe, Benjamin West exerted considerable influence on the development of art in the United States through such young American painters as Gilbert Stuart, Charles Willson Peale, and John Singleton Copley.
		West was born on Oct. 10, 1738, of Quaker parents in Springfield (now Swarthmore) in the Pennsylvania colony.
		West died on March 11, 1820, in London.
	www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/auth/west (395 words)

	Benjamin West - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		West worked primarily as a painter of historical and religious subjects, and as a portrait painter as patronage required.
		West during most of his career painted complex multifigure compositions and employed sophisticated glazing techniques that differed dramatically from the painting methods he had learned in Pennsylvania.
		The extraordinary stylistic and compositional differences between West's American and English work are due very much to his three years of study in Italy, when he absorbed the painting styles and compositions of Italian Renaissance and baroque painters, as well as those of his contemporaries.
	www.bonus.com /contour/national_gallery/http@@/www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?32850 (629 words)

	CGFA- Bio: Benjamin West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Benjamin West, an American painter of historical scenes and portraits, was one of the leading artists of his time.
		In 1763 West moved to England, where he soon gained the friendship of the English portraitist Sir Joshua Reynolds and the patronage of King George III, who commissioned him to execute portraits of members of the royal family and, in 1772, appointed him historical painter to the court.
		West was a founder, in 1768, of the Royal Academy of Arts and on Reynolds's death in 1792 succeeded him to the presidency.
	sunsite.icm.edu.pl /cjackson/west/west_bio.htm (210 words)

	West - AMAM
		West's visit on 7 June was described by the English landscape painter and diarist Joseph Farington in his journal entry for 8 June 1797:2West saw General Koscioscou [sic] yesterday.
		West shewed me a small picture which He yesterday began to paint from memory of Koscioscow [sic] on a Couch.
		West's companions were Dr. Edward Bancroft, an inventor and physician; and the American painter, soldier, and diplomat, John Trumbull.
	www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/west1.html (1722 words)

	Benjamin West
		It is said that before the age of seven he made a pen-and-ink sketch of his sister sleeping in a cradle, and his first attempts in color were made with the red and yellow earths that were given him by friendly Indians, and the blue of his mother's indigo-pot, with brushes of his own manufacture.
		In his painting of the death of Wolfe, West had the courage to repudiate the traditions of the classical school, in abandoning classic costume, and clothing his characters in the dress of their time.
		Yet, as one critic has said, "men should be judged not absolutely, but relatively," and West, though not entirely free from the conventionalities of his time, had at least the courage to protest against some of the prevailing ideas and fashions in art.
	www.famousamericans.net /benjaminwest1 (1098 words)

	pencokbde
		On a top of a large hill, near Halltown, West Virginia, Benjamin fell to the roadside and was assisted to the shade of a nearby tree.
		(3) Private Benjamin C. Dewees was wounded slightly in the leg from a minie ball at the Battle of Hatchers Run, outside of Petersburg, March 31, 1865, and was treated for the slight wound at a field hospital.
		Benjamin Casto Dewees' pension was stopped in 1907 due to his death.
	www.geocities.com /cok11wv/pencokbde.htm (575 words)

	Benjamin West - Biography
		West co-founded the Royal Academy of Art and the future National Gallery of London, became President of the Royal Academy, and royal painter to King George III.
		Though famed as a self-taught artist, West studied art with William Williams and John Valentine Heidt, and classical culture with the principal of the College of Philadelphia.
		West's The Death of General Wolfe (1770), a modern-dress history painting, caused a sensation when shown at the Royal Academy in 1771.
	cybermuse.gallery.ca /cybermuse/docs/bio_artistid5864_e.jsp (418 words)

	Benjamin West - John Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The value placed on Benjamin West's work has fluctuated greatly according to changing fashions over almost two hundred years, but his importance in both European and American art history cannot be denied.
		Almost all of West's American students (including Charles Willson Peale and Thomas Sully), most of whom then returned to the United States where they would lay the foundations for American art, remembered West's generosity and conveyed their grateful recollections to their students.
		West's long career and his prominent positions as the second president of the Royal Academy in London and history painter to George III made him an influential figure in the European movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism.
	www.artnet.com /artwork/79043/_Benjamin_West_John_Williams.html (239 words)

	Benjamin West (1738 - 1820) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Benjamin West was born into a Quaker family in Springfield Pennsylvania.
		Benjamin West, The Angel of the Resurrection, 1801
		Benjamin (Benjamin Roubaud), Caricature of Barye, the sculptor (1796 - 1875), 1838
	www.wwar.com /masters/w/west-benjamin.html (1254 words)

	American Art: Abstract for "Benjamin West and the Use of Antiquity" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Benjamin West, Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus, 1768.
		Benjamin West, attending a 1760 touring expedition to Italy, established the earliest direct American artistic exposure to Roman antiquity.
		West's theory of art and teaching was based on the study of the human figure as perfected in classical sculpture.
	www.hrw.com /si/social/si_beginnings/si_artists/v10n2prown.html (366 words)

	artists illustrating boys fashions: Benjamin West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Benjamin West was the first American painter to rise to international prominence.
		West yold many other tales about his childhood and early career, such as exclaiming that a classdical sculpture in the Vatican, reputedly the most perfect human figure that sculpture ever produced, "My God, how like it is to a young Mohawk warrior." Almost certainly a clever bit of self promotion.
		West began painting portraits in the villages around Philidelphia at the age of 16 and painted his first historical painting, The Death of Socrates.
	histclo.hispeed.com /art/artist-west.html (595 words)

	West, Benjamin on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		RELM Reelects George N. Benjamin III as Chairman of the Board.
		Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss and Miche Braden to Headline Shadowland Theatre's 21st Season in Ellenville, NY.
		JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - Israeli police inspect the remains of the van of Benjamin Kahane, the son of the slain anit-Arab Rabbi Meir Kahane, who was shot dead along with his wife Talia by Palestinian gunme
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/West-B1en.asp (686 words)

	Benjamin West Biography / Biography of Benjamin West Biography Biography
		Benjamin West (1738-1820), the first of America's emigré artists, became one of Europe's most important neoclassic painters.
		Benjamin West was born on Oct. 10, 1738, in Springfield Township, Pa., to a struggling innkeeper who had emigrated from England.
		Among West's American works produced during the 1750s were the Death of Socrates, forecasting his later neoclassic work; a somewhat fantastic Landscape with Cow (1748), revealing his early dreams of storybook castles; and a lustrous portrait of the young Thomas Mifflin.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-benjamin-west (229 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
		PBS - THE WEST - Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
		A leader in the "Great Exodus" that brought thousands of African Americans west from the post-Reconstruction South, Benjamin Singleton became toward the end of his life a pioneer of fl nationalism who launched one of the first back-to-Africa movements in the United States.
		Those who answered Singleton's call to head west became known as "Exodusters," and Singleton himself was described as the "Father of the Exodus." But the massive migration of African Americans from the South that reached a peak in 1879 was not inspired by Singleton alone.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/s_z/singleton.htm (619 words)

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