Lamentation over the dead Christ. Date unknown. Oil on paper laid down on panel. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, USA.
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 […]
The Raising of Lazarus. 1780. Oil on canvas. 101 x 130 ins (256.5 x 330.2 cms). Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. It was commissioned as the altarpiece for Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire, England, where it remained 1782-1900; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, New York City, in 1900. Now at Wadsworth Art Museum, Hartford, Connecticut and recently […]