The Death of Procris

1. Benjamin West (died 1820); by descent to his sons, Raphael Lamar West and Benjamin West Jr.; sold Robins, London, May 22–25, 1829, lot 63, to W. J. Ward for 34 gns [Von Erffa and Staley 1986 and Algernon Graves, Art Sales, vol. 3 (London, 1921), p. 329]. Mrs. Albert F. West, wife of the artist’s great-grandson; sold Christie’s London, March 18–19, 1898, lot 133. William O. Cole, given to the Art Institute, 1900.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1771, no. 214.
• London, West’s Gallery, 1822–28, no. 35.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 429, as Troilus and Cressida.
• Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, University Gallery, American Painting, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries, 1939, no. 42, as Troilus and Cressida.
• Saginaw, Michigan, Saginaw Museum, American Paintings from Colonial Times until Today, 1948, no. 67, as Troilus and Cressida.

• “Benjamin West, Esq., President of the Royal Academy, Etc.,” in Public Characters of 1805 (London, 1805) p. 567.
• “Biographical Sketch of Benjamin West, Esq., President of the Royal Academy, Etc., Etc,” Universal Magazine 3 (June 1805), p. 531.
• Joel Barlow, The Columbiad: A Poem (Philadelphia, 1807), p. 453 n. 45 (list of West’s works).
• “A Correct Catalogue of the Works of Benjamin West, Esq.,” La Belle Assemblée, or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine 4 (1808), suppl., p. 18.
• John Galt, The Life, Studies, and Works Benjamin West, Esq., President of the Royal Academy of London, vol. 2 (London, 1820), p. 231.
• Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago, 1904), p. 202, no. 342.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago, 1907), p. 214, no. 342.
• Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects (Chicago, 1910), p. 193. no. 342.
• Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago, 1913), p. 149, no. 342.
• Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago, 1914), p. 139, no. 342.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and Architecture (Chicago, 1917), p. 160, no. 544.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings (Chicago, 1920), p. 55, no. 544.

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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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