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Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire
Wednesday, Nov 14, 2012 11:00a
to
5:00p
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor,
MI
How is it that an American painter came to define the British Empire? Benjamin West's iconic painting The Death of General Wolfe (1776) depicts the death of James Wolfe, the British commander at the 1759 Battle of Quebec during what in this country is known as the French and Indian War. In conflating a momentous contemporary event with the genre of large-scale history painting, West flouted the conventions of academic painting and the work became one of the most celebrated paintings in Britain.
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