The Women at the Sepulchre. 1768. Oil on canvas. 79.3 x 58.4 cms (31.2 x 23 ins). Private Collection.
Phillip Medhurst
A Pilgrimage to Truth
Category: Benjamin West
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The Resurrection. c1785. Commissioned the painting for St.George’s Church Barbados. Exhibited at The Royal Academy in 1786. When it arrived in Barbados, the President of the Legislative Council and the Rector had “fallen out”, and as a result, it was relegated to an outbuilding at Lower Estate Plantation, where it remained for more than 30 […]
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The Resurrection. c. 1805. Oil on canvas. 100.75 x 75 ins (255.9 x 190.5 cms). Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California.
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The Resurrection. c1808. Oil on paper on panel. 15 3/4 x 12 1/16 ins (40 x 30.6 cms). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.
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Peter and John run to the tomb of Christ. 1784. Image of the left panel for the east window of St George’s Chapel. Print made by Valentine Green after West. Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper. Sheet: 18 9/16 x 9 5/8 ins (47.1 x 24.5 cms), Plate: 18 3/8 x 9 […]
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The Three Marys at the Sepulchre. 1783. Oil on canvas. 157.5 x 84 cms. The design for the right-hand light of West’s great east window in St George’s Chapel, Windsor. National Trust, Tatton Park, Cheshire.
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The Resurrection. 1782. Oil on canvas. 120 1/2 × 54 5/8 ins (306 × 138.8 cms). A cartoon the size of the window for the east end of St. George’s Chapel, 28 feet wide by 36 high, for Charles Forrest to draw from on the glass. Acquired in 1962 by the Fundación Luis A. Ferré […]
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The Last Supper and The Resurrection. Design for the East Window, St. George’s Collegiate Chapel, Windsor, 1781. Drawing; pen and ink on wash on paper. 635 mms x 410 mms. Royal Academy of Arts. Burlington House, Piccadilly, London. From 1779 to 1801 West became involved with the large-scale restoration of St George’s Chapel in Windsor […]
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Lamentation over the dead Christ. Date unknown. Oil on paper laid down on panel. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, USA.
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The Crucifixion. Study in oil colour, for a glass painting by Charles Forrest. From 1779 to 1801 West became involved with the restoration of St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle. He created this design for a new west window, which when completed was to be 28 feet wide by 36 high. The only surviving depiction […]
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