Isaac’s servant trying the bracelet on Rebekah’s arm. 1775. Oil on canvas. Height: 124 cms (48.82 ins), Width: 160 cms (62.99 ins). Yale Center for British Art, U.S.A.
Phillip Medhurst
A Pilgrimage to Truth
Category: Christianity
Image | May 27, 2022
The Call of Abraham going to sacrifice his son Isaac. c1799. Oil on canvas. 20 5/8 x 29 1/8 inches. Wichita Art Museum. It is likely that this painting was commissioned by William Beckford for Fonthill Abbey. Beckford’s financial reverses in 1823 resulted in the auction of the Fonthill art collection which included this painting […]
Image | May 26, 2022
Hagar and Ishmael. 1776, reworked 1803. Oil on canvas. 76 x 54 1/2 ins (193 x 138.4 cms). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Noah and his Family sacrificing. c1801 (unfinished). c1800. Oil on canvas. 72 x 138 ins (182.9 x 350.5 cms). The San Antonio Museum of Art.
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The Deluge. 1791. Location of completed painting currently unknown. Sketch: 1790. Oil on canvas. Frame: 25 3/8 x 35 1/16 ins (64.4 x 89 cms); image: 19 1/8 x 28 3/4 ins (48.5 x 73 cms). The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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The expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. 1791. Oil on canvas. Height: 186.8 cms (73.54 ins), width: 278.1 cms (109.49 ins). National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
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The expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. 1791. Oil on canvas, Sketch retouched 1803. 48.6 × 72.9 cms (19 1/8 × 28 11/16 ins). The Art Institute of Chicago.
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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.)
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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 […]
