The Woman Clothed with the Sun Fleeth from the Persecution of the Dragon
The Woman Clothed with the Sun Fleeth from the Persecution of the Dragon
BENJAMIN WEST P.R.A. (1738-1820)
England c. 1798
Oil with pen and ink on canvas
This is a particularly beautiful example of his fully realized studies
and displays the artist’s fluid pen-work combined with a careful
handling of paint. It is unusual for West in being executed directly onto
a lightly primed canvas rather than on paper subsequently faced onto
a canvas support.
England c. 1798
Oil with pen and ink on canvas
Dimensions
28.60cm wide 39.50cm high (11.26 inches wide 15.55 inches high)
Description / Expertise
This previously unrecorded mixed-media study on canvas is a reparatory work for one of four pictures commissioned in 1797 by William Beckford for a planned but never-realized ‘Revelation Chamber’ at Fonthill Abbey. It was among West’s most important commissions.This is a particularly beautiful example of his fully realized studies
and displays the artist’s fluid pen-work combined with a careful
handling of paint. It is unusual for West in being executed directly onto
a lightly primed canvas rather than on paper subsequently faced onto
a canvas support.
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