The Women clothed in the Sun. Oil on paper laid down on wood panel. c1797. 149 x 69 cms (58 11/16 x 27 3/16 ins); frame: 168.5 × 87.2 cms (66 5/16 × 34 5/16 ins). Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey. Probably a design for a stained-glass window at Fonthill Abbey.
A Mighty Angel Stands upon the Land and upon the Sea. 1797. Oil on paper, mounted on panel. 21.5 x 31 ins; 54.61 x 78.74 cms. Location unknown.
The Beast Rises Out Of The Sea. 1797. Painting. Private collection.
Death on the Pale Horse (detail): The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. 1796. Oil on canvas. Unframed: 23 3/8 × 50 5/8 ins (59.4 × 128.6 cms). Framed: 36 1/2 × 63 1/8 × 3 1/8 ins (92.7 × 160.3 × 7.9 cms). Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit.
Death on the Pale Horse. 1796. Oil on canvas. Unframed: 23 3/8 × 50 5/8 ins (59.4 × 128.6 cms). Framed: 36 1/2 × 63 1/8 × 3 1/8 ins (92.7 × 160.3 × 7.9 cms). Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit.
Death on the Pale Horse. 1817. Oil on canvas. 176 x 301 ins (447.0 x 764.5 cms). Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. This version is thought to be the artist’s final major work. West based it on the Book of Revelation 6:8, in which the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence—ravage […]
Saint John the Divine called to write the Revelation. 1797. Oil on five sheets of paper mounted on canvas, itself mounted on wood. 57 7/8 × 26 1/2 ins (147 × 67.3 cms). The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
St Paul Shaking off the Viper. 1789. Oil on canvas. 7.62 metres high by 4.27 metres wide. West was commissioned to paint this altarpiece for the new chapel of Greenwich Hospital (now the Royal Naval Hospital), the subject-matter aiming to provide hope for the naval pensioners who were spending their last days in the hospital […]
St Paul Shaking off the Viper. 1786. Sketch. Oil on canvas. Support: 1295 × 724 mms, frame: 1588 × 1030 × 108 mms. Tate Gallery, London. West was commissioned to paint an altarpiece for the new chapel of Greenwich Hospital (now the Royal Naval Hospital). Originally, this was a sketch for the much larger painting, […]
The Conversion of Saint Paul (centre); Saint Paul Persecuting the Christians (left); and Ananias Restoring Saint Paul’s Sight (right). St Paul’s Church Birmingham (England) east window. Glass painted by Francis Eginton.
Phillip Medhurst 