1806 newspaper w BENJAMIN WEST painting THE DEATH of NELSON Battle of Trafalgar

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1806 newspaper w BENJAMIN WEST painting THE DEATH of NELSON Battle of Trafalgar:
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This newspaper contains a front page headline: \"Mr. (Benjamin) West\'s Grand Historical Picture of the Death of Lord Nelson.\" Following the headline is a full front page VERY VERY DETAILED DESCRIPTION of the painting just completed by the famous American painter BENJAMIN WEST showing the DEATH of Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.

This is as good as it gets regarding the unveiling of this famous painting without actually having an engraving of it (which was not technologically possible to do in a newspaperin 1806).

The Death of Nelson is a painting by the American artist Benjamin West dated 1806.

Benjamin West (October 10, 1738 – March 11, 1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence. He was the second president of the Royal Academy in London, serving from 1792 to 1805 and 1806 to 1820. He was offered a knighthood by the British Crown, but declined it, believing that he should instead be made a peer.

In 1770, West painted The Death of General Wolfe. This was not an accurate representation of the event, but rather an idealisation, and it included people who were not present at the event. Nevertheless it became very popular, and West painted at least five copies.

In 1801, three years after the Battle of the Nile, West met Horatio Nelson, who told him how much he admired the painting of Wolfe, and asked why he had not produced any more similar paintings. West, who was at the time the President of the Royal Academy, replied that he had found no subject of comparable notability. Nelson then expressed the desire that he would be the subject of West\'s next similar painting. In 1805, Nelson was killed in the Battle of Trafalgar and, within six months, West had created this painting. Again it proved to be popular. When West exhibited it in his studio, within just over a month it was seen by 30,000members of the public.

Again it was an idealisation of the subject. Although West took considerable trouble about the accuracy of details in his painting, basing the portraits on over 50survivors of the battle, he produced, as he admitted himself, a picture \"of what might have been, not of the circumstances as they happened\". West created two more paintings with Nelson as the subject, The Death of Lord Nelson in the Cockpit of the Ship \"Victory\" and The Immortality of Nelson, both of which are in the National Maritime Museum.

West\'s painting is in oil on canvas and measures 182.5 centimetres (72in) by 247.5 centimetres (97in). It was presented to the Walker Art Gallery by Bristow H. Hughes.

ArtistBenjamin WestYear1806TypeOil on canvasDimensions182.5cm ×247.5cm (71.9in ×97.4in)LocationWalker Art Gallery, Liverpool

It goes without saying that the painting itselfis NOT pictured in this newspaper and is shown here for informational purposes only !!

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