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Achilles Wearing the Armor Brought by Thetis

Benjamin West
Drawing
1807
Owner: The Morgan Library & Museum

Vagabond Family (recto)

Benjamin West
Drawing
1788
Owner: National Gallery of Art

George III

Benjamin West
Painting
1783
Owner: Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of an English Gentleman

Benjamin West
Painting
c. 1765
Owner: Westmoreland Museum of Art
The Death of General Wolfe

The Death of General Wolfe

Benjamin West
Painting
1780
Owner: Royal Ontario Museum
Mary Johnson Hopkinson

Mary Johnson Hopkinson

Benjamin West
Painting
1767
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew Allen

Andrew Allen

Benjamin West
Painting
Owner: Private collection

Artist Sketching in Windsor Park

Benjamin West
Drawing
1789
Owner: Yale Center for British Art

The Death of General Wolfe

Benjamin West
Painting
1770
Owner: National Gallery of Canada

Portrait of a Man Standing in Front of Window

Benjamin West
Drawing
Owner: Art Institute of Chicago

Mother and Child

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
1783
Owner: British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings

Silas Talbot

Robert Edge Pine
Painting
1784-85
Owner: UNLOCATED

Study for the Death of the Earl of Chatham

John Singleton Copley
Drawing
1779
Owner: British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings

Countess of Effingham

Benjamin West
Drawing
c. 1797
Owner: British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings

Mary Hopkinson

Benjamin West
Painting
1764
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Portrait of Robert and Thomas Drummond

Benjamin West
Drawing
c. 1767
Owner: British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings

Death of General Wolfe at the Heights of Abraham

Unidentified Artist
Painting
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Three Women Seated

Benjamin West
Painting
Owner: National Gallery of Scotland

Garrit Van Horn Dewitt

Benjamin West
Painting
c. 1760
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum
Elizabeth Kortright Monroe

Elizabeth Kortright Monroe

Eben Farrington Comins
Painting
1932
Owner: The White House
George Ross

George Ross

Benjamin West
Painting
c. 1755
Owner: Franklin and Marshall College
Samuel Preston

Samuel Preston

Benjamin West
Painting
1797
Owner: Library Company of Philadelphia

Mrs. Worrell as Hebe

Benjamin West
Painting
c. 1770
Owner: Tate Gallery

Sir Robert Stuart

Benjamin West
Painting
c. 1790-1800
Owner: Bowdoin College

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