About the Artwork
Queen Philippa Interceding for the Lives of the Burghers of Calais
1788
Benjamin West
1738-1820
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 39 1/2 x 52 1/4 inches (100.3 x 132.7 cm) Framed: 47 1/2 x 59 7/8 x 3 inches (120.7 x 152.1 x 7.6 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of James E. Scripps
89.73
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, lower left: B. West | 1788
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Provenance
June 7-8, 1799, Thomas Hankey sale(Christie's, lot 20, London, England). June 1, 1813, John Willett sale (Peter Coxe, lot 79, London, England). James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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“A Correct Catalogue of the Works of Mr. West.” Public Characters of 1805 (1805): p. 563.
“A Correct List of the Works of Mr. West.” Universal Magazine 3 (1805): p. 529.
Barlow, Joel. The Columbiad. A Poem. Philadelphia, 1807, p. 433.
“A Correct Catalogue of the Works of Benjamin West, Esq.” La Belle Assemblee or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine 4 (1808): p. 16.
Galt, John. The Life and Works of Benjamin West, ESQ., President of the Royal Academy of London, Subsequent to his Arrival in the Country. London, 1820, p. 224.
Scripps, James E., ed. Catalogue of the Scripps Collection of Old Masters. Exh. cat., Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1889, no. 85.
Pilgrim Tercentenary Exhibition. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1921, no. 31.
Evans, Grose. Benjamin West and the Taste of His Times. Carbondale, IL, 1959, p. 69 (pl. 50).
Ways to Look. Exh. cat., The Des Moines Art Center. Des Moines, 1960, no. 31.
The World of Benjamin West. Exh. cat., Allentown Art Museum. Allentown, PA, 1962, no. 17.
Milar, Oliver. The Later Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Vol. 1. 1969, p. 133.
Dillenberger, John. Benjamin West: The Context of His Life’s Work with Particular Attention to Paintings with Religious Subject Matter. San Antonio, 1977, p. 162.
Rosenblum, Robert and H. W. Janson. Nineteenth-Century Art. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1984, p. 19 (fig. 7).
Abrams, A.U. The Valiant Hero. Washington, D.C., 1985, p. 196 (fig. 126).
Von Erffa, Helmut and Allen Staley. Benjamin West. New Haven, CT, 1986, pp. 198-199, no. 65 (ill.).
Black, Mary, et al. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume One: Works by Artists Born Before 1816. New York, 1991, pp. 232-234, no. 107.
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Benjamin West, Queen Philippa Interceding for the Lives of the Burghers of Calais, 1788, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.73.
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