Saul and the Witch of Endor #2
by Benjamin West
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20.000 x 15.000 x 0.500 inches
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Title
Saul and the Witch of Endor #2
Artist
Benjamin West
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
This is a reproduction of "Saul and the Witch of Endor" of 1777 by Benjamin West. The artist was born in Springfield, Pennsylvania in 1738 and had little formal education. He began painting portraits in Pennsylvania at the age of eight years and ten years later secured a patron who introduced him to other patrons. He became a friend of Benjamin Franklin and his patrons sent him to Italy in 1760 and in Rome met a number of Neoclassical artists. He arrived in England in 1763 intending a short visit, but never returned to America. He married an American there two years later. He gained further commissions and soon became known as the “American Raphael”. He came under the patronage of George III and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts. He was appointed historical painter to the court and in 1791 Surveyor of the King’s Pictures. He lost royal patronage in the early Nineteenth Century and began creating religious masterpieces. He had many pupils, American and otherwise, and died in his home in London on March 11, 1820. This painting depicts a scene from the First Book of Samuel in the Bible in which King Saul uses the Witch of Endor to raise the spirit of the prophet Samuel who foretells the king death on the next day. This work is 19 7/8 by 25 5/8 inches and is in the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut.
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