Benjamin West (October 10, 1738 - March 11, 1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence. He was born in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, in a house that is now on the campus of Swarthmore College, as the tenth child of an innkeeper. West told John Galt, with whom, late in his life, he collaborated on a memoir, "The Life and Studies of Benjamin West" (1816, 1820) that, when he was a child, … Wikipedia
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