Portrait of Benjamin West (Stuart)

Painting by Gilbert Stuart

Portrait of Benjamin West

Artist	Gilbert Stuart
Year	1785
Type	Oil on canvas
Location	National Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of Benjamin West is a 1785 portrait painting by the American artist Gilbert Stuart of the noted Anglo-American painter Benjamin West. West, a future President of the Royal Academy settled in Britain during the 1760s. His epic 1770 battle painting The Death of General Wolfe established him as a leading artist.

West is shown seated in front of a dark green curtain. His hand rests on books including Tobias Smollett's book History of England. In the background is West's as yet unfished religious painting Moses Receiving the Law. It was originally commissioned by John Boydell who ran the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery. It is now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London having been acquired in 1872.

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Bibliography

Barratt, Carrie Rebora & Miles, Ellen G. Gilbert Stuart. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.
Ingamells, John. National Portrait Gallery Mid-Georgian Portraits, 1760–1790. National Portrait Gallery, 2004.
Staiti, Paul. Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution through Painters' Eyes. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2016.

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Paintings	The Skater (1782) Portrait of Benjamin West (1785) Catherine Brass Yates (1793–1794) Portrait of Horatio Gates (1793–1794) Lansdowne portrait of George Washington (1796) Athenaeum Portrait (1796, unfinished) George Washington (Constable-Hamilton Portrait) (1797)
Museums	Gilbert Stuart Birthplace and Museum
Related	Cosmo Alexander (master) Jane Stuart (daughter) United States one-dollar bill

v t e Benjamin West
Paintings	Portrait of Robert Monckton (1763) General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian (1764–1768) Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus (1768) The Departure of Regulus (1769) The Death of General Wolfe (1770) The Oath of Hannibal (1770) Penn's Treaty with the Indians (1771–1772) The Death of Chevalier Bayard (1772) The Wife of Arminius Brought Captive to Germanicus (1773) Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill) (1776) Fidelia and Speranza (1776) The Battle of the Boyne (1778) The Battle of La Hogue (1778) Oliver Cromwell Dissolving the Long Parliament (1782) Treaty of Paris (1783) Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain in the Year 1783 (1783–1811; lost) Portrait of Dr Richard Price (1784) Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag (1786) Edward III Crossing the Somme (1788) Queen Philippa at the Battle of Neville's Cross (1789) Death on the Pale Horse (1796, 1817) The Death of Nelson (1806) Portrait of Robert Fulton (1806) Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky (c. 1816)
Related	Benjamin West Birthplace Square Tavern (boyhood home) Portrait of Benjamin West (Lawrence) Portrait of Benjamin West (Stuart) The Royal Academicians in General Assembly

Benjamin West

Paintings

Portrait of Robert Monckton (1763)
General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian (1764–1768)
Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus (1768)
The Departure of Regulus (1769)
The Death of General Wolfe (1770)
The Oath of Hannibal (1770)
Penn's Treaty with the Indians (1771–1772)
The Death of Chevalier Bayard (1772)
The Wife of Arminius Brought Captive to Germanicus (1773)
Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill) (1776)
Fidelia and Speranza (1776)
The Battle of the Boyne (1778)
The Battle of La Hogue (1778)
Oliver Cromwell Dissolving the Long Parliament (1782)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain in the Year 1783 (1783–1811; lost)
Portrait of Dr Richard Price (1784)
Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag (1786)
Edward III Crossing the Somme (1788)
Queen Philippa at the Battle of Neville's Cross (1789)
Death on the Pale Horse (1796, 1817)
The Death of Nelson (1806)
Portrait of Robert Fulton (1806)
Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky (c. 1816)

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