Woodcutters in Windsor Park

Benjamin West1795

Details

Title: Woodcutters in Windsor Park
Creator Lifespan: 1738 - 1820
Creator Nationality: American
Creator Gender: Male
Date Created: 1795
Type: oil paintings
Rights: Gift of Mrs. Nicholas H. Noyes
External Link: http://www.imamuseum.org/mercury/load-artwork/11466
Medium: oil on canvas
wall label: Born in Pennsylvania, Benjamin West studied painting in Rome in his early twenties and moved to England in 1763, where he remained for the rest of his career. The setting for this landscape is the Queen's Lodge in the Great Park at Windsor, where woodcutters are shown making a clearing to provide a "view." Such vistas were an essential part of 18th-century English landscape design. The landscape was painted the same year West began work on a major cycle of decorations for the chapel at Windsor Castle.
measurements: 26 1/2 x 35 in.
Artist: West, Benjamin

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