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Benjamin West (painter) American, 1738 - 1820 The Battle of La Hogue, c. 1778 oil on canvas Overall: 152.7 x 214 cm (60 1/8 x 84 1/4 in.) framed: 180.3 x 241 cm (71 x 94 7/8 in.) Andrew W. Mellon Fund 1959.8.1 |
Object 4 of 8
| 1780 | "An Artist." A Candid Review of the Exhibition (being the twelfth) of the Royal Academy, MDCCLXXX. Dedicated to His Majesty. 2nd edition. London, 1780: 18. |
| 1780 | "Another Artist." "To the Author of A Candid Review of the Exhibition (being the twelfth) of the Royal Academy, 1780." The Gazetteer, and New Daily Advertiser (15 May 1780): 1. |
| 1780 | "Candid." "To the Printer of the Morning Chronicle." The Morning Chronicle, and London Advertiser, 20 May 1780: 2. |
| 1780 | "Exhibition 1780." The Public Advertiser, 2 May 1780: 2. |
| 1780 | "Exhibition of the Royal Academy." The London Courant, and Westminster Chronicle, 6 May 1780: 4. |
| 1780 | "Royal Academy." The London Chronicle, 2-4 May 1780: 428. |
| 1780 | "Royal Academy." The Morning Chronicle, and London Advertiser, 2 May 1780: 3. |
| 1780 | "The Painter's Mirror." The Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser, 4 May 1780: 3. |
| 1780 | [Notice of the Opening of the Academy]. The London Evening-Post, 29 April - 2 May 1780: 4. |
| 1796 | Pasquin, Anthony. Memoirs of the Royal Academicians. London, 1796: 75-76. |
| 1805 | "A Correct Catalogue of the Works of Mr. West." Public Characters of 1805. London, 1805: 561. |
| 1805 | "A Correct List of the Work of Mr. West." Universal Magazine 3, no. 19 (June 1805): 528. |
| 1807 | Barlow, Joel. The Columbiad. A Poem. Philadelphia, 1807: 310, 432 (note 45). |
| 1808 | "A Correct Catalogue of the Works of Benjamin West, Esq." La Belle Assemblée or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine 4, Supplement (February 1808): 14, 19, 54. |
| 1820 | Galt, John. "A Catalogue of the Works of Mr. West." The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq., President of the Royal Academy of London. 2 vols. London, 1820: 2:220, 225, 233. |
| 1821 | Young, John. A Catalogue of the Pictures at Grosvenor House, London; with Etchings from the Whole Collection. London, 1821: 7, no. 18, pl. 7. |
| 1829 | Smith, John Thomas. Nollekens and His Times. 2nd edition. 2 vols. London, 1829: 2:302. |
| 1831 | Hamilton, George. The English School: A Series of the Most Approved Productions in Painting and Sculpture, Executed by British Artists from the Days of Hogarth to the Present Time. 4 vols. London, 1831-1832: 4(1832):280. |
| 1834 | Dunlap 1834, 1:65, 88-91, 93, 125. |
| 1836 | Passavant, Johann David. Tour of a German Artist in England. 2 vols. London, 1836: 1:158; 2:55, 221. |
| 1838 | Waagen, Gustav Friedrich. Works of Art and Artists in England. 3 vols. London, 1838: 2:173, 317, 318. |
| 1844 | Jameson, Anna Brownell. Companion to the most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London. London, 1844: 284, no. 156. |
| 1854 | Waagen, Gustav Friedrich. Treasures of Art in Great Britain. 3 vols. London, 1854: 2:173. |
| 1867 | Tuckerman 1867, 100-101. |
| 1952 | Flexner, James Thomas. "Benjamin West's American Neo-Classicism, with Documents on Benjamin West and William Williams." The New-York Historical Society Quarterly (January 1952): 41. |
| 1962 | Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962: 130, color repro. |
| 1963 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 321, repro. |
| 1966 | Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:378, color repro. |
| 1970 | Dickason, David Howard. "Benjamin West on William Williams: A Previously Unpublished Letter." Winterthur Portfolio 6 (1970): 132. |
| 1970 | Dickason, David Howard. William Williams - Novelist and Painter of Colonial America, 1727-1791. Bloomington, 1970: 41, 233 note 60. |
| 1970 | American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 120, repro. |
| 1975 | Kraemer, Ruth S. Drawings by Benjamin West and his son Raphael Lamar West. New York, 1975: 13-14, no. 17-18, and plate 9. |
| 1977 | Dillenberger 1977, 152, no. 141. |
| 1978 | Alberts, Robert C. Benjamin West. A Biography. Boston, 1978: 127, 132, 145, 153, 165, 182, 326, 390, 397. |
| 1979 | Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 94, pl. 82, color repro. |
| 1980 | Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 12, no. 2, repro. |
| 1980 | American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 254, repro. |
| 1981 | Williams 1981, color detail 2-3, 25, repro. 38-39, 40, 57. |
| 1982 | The Diary of Joseph Farington. Vols. 7 and 8. Edited by Kathryn Cave. New Haven and London, 1982: 7(1978):2503, 2757; 8(1982):2803, 2806. |
| 1984 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 372, no. 524, color repro. |
| 1986 | Von Erffa and Staley 1986, 63, 68, color repro. 71, color detail 72-73, 75, 102, 157 note 90, 190, 206, 209-210, 222. |
| 1988 | Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington (rev. ed.), 1988: 16, 50, color repro. 51. |
| 1992 | American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 377, repro. |
| 1992 | National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 212, repro. |
| 1995 | Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 329-334, color repro. 331. |
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