Those marked with an asterisk *, together with the Royal version of The Death of General Wolfe, were selected by the King for hanging in the Warm Room at Buckingham Palace, which the King was converting to a royal palace at the time. Queen Philippa at the Battle of Neville’s Cross (1789)Īnd many portraits.Edward, the Black Prince, Receiving King John after the Battle of Poitiers (1788).Edward III with the Black Prince after the Battle of Crécy (1788).Edward III Entertaining his Prisoners (1788).The Institution of the Order of the Garter (1787).A View in Windsor Great Park (c 1783-85).*The Family of the King of Armenia Before Cyrus (1773). ![]() *The Wife of Arminius Brought Captive to Germanicus (1773). ![]() Instead, it was John Singleton Copley, his former protegé, who stole the limelight with his version shown two years later.īut West had been busy working on more commissions for the King: these remain in the UK Royal Collection, so cannot be shown here, but searching for Benjamin West on the Royal Collection Trust’s website reveals Benjamin West’s ‘modern history’ painting of The Death of Chatham did not bring the acclaim which the artist had hoped for in 1778.
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