Queen Philippa at the Battle of Neville's Cross

1. Benjamin West (died 1820); by descent to his sons, Raphael Lamar West and Benjamin West, Jr; sold Robins, London, 22–25 May 1829, no. 110, to W. J. Ward for £68; W. J. Ward to at least 1833 [lent by him to the British Institution that year]. Sold at a house sale in Dubuque, Iowa, 1971, to Vincent F. Carney, Rochelle, Ill. [letter of Vincent F. Carney to Esther Sparks, 7 July 1973, in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1972.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, West's Gallery, 1822–28, no. 112.
• London, British Institution, 1833, no. 3.
• Chicago, Arts Club, "The Horse as Motif, 1200 B.C.–1966 A.D.," 1975, no. 36.

• "Benjamin West, Esq., President of the Royal Academy, Etc.," in Public Characters of 1805 (London, 1805), p. 565.
• "Biographical Sketch of Benjamin West, Esq., President of the Royal Academy, Etc., Etc.," Universal Magazine 3 (June 1805), p. 530.
• "A Correct Catalogue of the Works of Benjamin West, Esq.," La Belle Assemblée, or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine 4 (1808), suppl., p. 17.
• John Galt, The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq., President of the Royal Academy of London (London, 1820), vol. 2, p. 227.
• Oliver Millar, The Later Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen (London, 1969), vol. 1, p. 133, under no. 1160.
• Esther Sparks, "Three Narrative Paintings by Benjamin West in the Collection," Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 68 (1974), pp. 5 (ill.), 7.
• John Dillenberger, Benjamin West: The Context of His Life's Work with Particular Attention to Paintings with Religious Subject Matter (San Antonio, 1977), pp. 170, 202, 206.
• Helmut von Erffa and Allen Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West (New Haven and London, 1986), pp. 196–97, no. 62 (ill.).
• Malcolm Warner in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1996), pp. 298–301 (ill.).

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The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise

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The Death of Procris

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Portrait of a Man

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St. Paul Shaking off the Viper

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Alexander's Confidence with his Physician Philip

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Angel of the Resurrection, from the first issue of Specimens of Polyautography

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Excavation Pompeii, Italy

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