Simeon with the infant Jesus. c1796. Oil on canvas. 121.92 cms (48 ins) x 90.49 cms (35.63 ins). Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan.
Phillip Medhurst
A Pilgrimage to Truth
Category: gospel
Image | May 28, 2022
The Virgin Mary with Jesus and John the Baptist. c1760-1762. Oil on canvas. Height: 205 cms (80.71 ins), width: 144 cms (56.69 ins). Ferens Art Gallery, Hull.
Image | May 28, 2022
The Wise Men’s Offerings. 1799. Oil on canvas. 27 x 22 ins (68.5 x 56 cms);33¾ x 29¼ ins (85.7 x 74.3 cms). Private collection. This painting relates, with differences, to West’s composition for the window for St. George’s Chapel, Windsor which was installed in 1796. The window has since been removed, but the composition […]
Image | May 28, 2022
The Wise Men’s Offerings. Oil on Canvas. 128.9 x 58.4 cms (50.7 x 23 ins). A cartoon painted for a window in St. George’s Chapel Windsor, installed in 1796. From 1779 to 1801 West became involved with the large-scale restoration of this Chapel, and windows were installed in the quire aisles. The designs were drawn […]
Image | May 28, 2022
The Nativity. 1792. Oil and paper on canvas. Height: 497.8 cms (16.3 ft); width: 256.5 cms (100.9 ins). National Trust, Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex. For the window for St. George’s Chapel, Windsor which was installed in 1796. From 1779 to 1801 West was engaged in George III’s many alterations to Windsor Castle, and became […]
Image | May 28, 2022
The angels announcing the birth of Jesus. 1790. Painting; pen, brush and brown ink with oil on paper. Height: 34.61 cm (13.63 in.), Width: 23.5 cm (9.25 in.) A cartoon for a painted-glass window St. George’s Chapel, Windsor which was installed in 1796. From 1779 to 1801 West was engaged in George III’s many alterations […]
Image | May 28, 2022
The angels announcing the birth of Jesus to the shepherds. 1774. For Rochester Cathedral. Current location unknown.
Image | May 26, 2022
Design for the ceiling decoration of the Royal Chapel, Windsor Castle. c.1779. (black chalk, pen & brown ink & watercolour, heightened with touches of white, grey & blue bodycolour & brown wash.)
Image | May 26, 2022
Design for a wall of the Chapel of Revealed Religion (pen and brush and ink on paper indented for transfer).
Image | May 26, 2022
c. 1780. Pen and ink, watercolour and body colour. 27.5 x 24.8 cm (sheet of paper). For the wall paintings for the Chapel planned by George III at Windsor Castle. At the centre, Moses receiving the tablets on Mount Sinai, with a scene of the Last Supper below. West enjoyed many years of patronage under […]
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