Benjamin West

West put modern uniforms into history painting — battlefield deathbeds staged like altarpieces, banked clouds, and figures grouped in classical grief.

Benjamin West (1738–1820) was a painter from United States, associated with Neoclassicism.

More Neoclassicism painters: Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Joshua Reynolds, François Gérard.

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The Death of General Wolfe — Benjamin West
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1723–1792François Gérard
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