He anticipated the Pre-Raphaelite movement with such Shakespearean paintings as The Damsel and Orlando and King Lear in the Storm, and was the subject of two biography editions by John Galt.
He anticipated the Pre-Raphaelite movement with such Shakespearean paintings as The Damsel and Orlando and King Lear in the Storm, and was the subject of two biography editions by John Galt. Though largely self-taught, he studied under William Williams and Gustavus Hesselius and produced a wide range of historical paintings, covering subjects from The Death of Epaminondas to Edward III Crossing the Somme. Unlike Albert Pinkham Ryder's desolate, empty scene painted over a century later, he painted a chaotic, crowded scene of a grim massacre in his Death on a Pale Horse, but this Pennsylvanian made his name as the president of the Royal Academy and artist of Penn's Treaty with the Indians. FTP, name this painter who showed an Indian and a band of redcoat soldiers looking over their fallen leader at the Plains of Abraham in his The Death of General Wolfe.
He anticipated the Pre-Raphaelite movement with such Shakespearean paintings as The Damsel and Orlando and King Lear in the Storm, and was the subject of two biography editions by John Galt.
Benjamin {West}