Benjamin West

(1738-1820)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: West, Benjamin, 1738-1820 NRA: West Benjamin (1738-1820) Painter DNB: West, Benjamin (1738-1820), history painter LBT ID: BeWest1820 VIAF ID: 76585232 LOC ID: n50003451	B/BAP: 1738-10-10 DIED: 1820-03-11
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American-born historical painter who traveled to Europe in 1760 and was one of the founders of the Royal Academy in London.
REFERENCES TO Benjamin West: Isaac D’Israeli to John Murray, 5 August 1805 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 4 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Memoir of Mr. James Henry Leigh Hunt. Written by Himself” in Monthly Magazine NS 7 (April 1810) 243-48 Found 1: ¶ John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 11 January 1818 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sydney Smith to Lord Grey, 10 May 1820 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 3 William Ponsonby to Lady Caroline Lamb, 20 April 1823 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sir Walter Scott to Lord Montagu of Boughton, 14 April 1824 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 1: ¶ 37 Portraits—the Author's Father. Found 2: ¶ 7 ¶ 11 Portraits—the Author's Mother. Found 1: ¶ 18 Portraits—Mr. West & his Gallery. Found 5: ¶ 26 ¶ 27 ¶ 28 ¶ 29 ¶ 30 Portraits—more West Indians. Found 1: ¶ 33 “Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries” in New Monthly Magazine NS 22 (January 1828) 84-96 Found 1: ¶ 15 “Review of Lord Byron and some of His Contemporaries” in Literary Chronicle (26 January 1828) 49-52 Found 1: ¶ 13 [Henry Southern], “Leigh Hunt's Lord Byron” in London Magazine NS 10 (February 1828) 211-33 Found 1: ¶ 12 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Review of Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries” in Quarterly Review 37 (March 1828) 402-26 Found 1: ¶ 19 Charles Lamb to Samuel Rogers, [21 December 1833?] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XII 1824 William Howitt , “Leigh Hunt” in Homes and Haunts of the most eminent British Poets 2 Vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1847) 347-67 Found 3: ¶ ¶ ¶ Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 8: My Own Life Found 1: ¶ 15 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1820 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 101 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XII Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 1 Found 1: ¶ 1 Chapter V Found 1: ¶ 21 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XIX Found 2: ¶ 24 ¶ 25 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter V. 1842-44. Found 1: ¶ 30 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter II. Chap. XXII. Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1833