Word: benjamin
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...Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe transforms history painting...
...their suspicion of the icon. The next wave of settlers in the Northeast, the Quakers, led by William Penn, despised most arts. Music was a distraction, poetry (beyond the simplest hymns) a snare. So the lack of Quaker painting is hardly a surprise, though some artists--most conspicuously Benjamin West--came from Quaker families and left the faith. The only painter who lived and died a Quaker was the Philadelphia "primitive" Edward Hicks (1780-1849), and he felt moral qualms about...
...arts in America did not bring forth anything much new at first, except for mid- to late-18th century furniture--and one work by Benjamin West. When he was 12, West (1738-1820) announced that his talent would make him the "companion of kings and emperors." And as a matter of fact, it did: after he settled in England in 1763, he became George III's favorite artist. His definitive work was The Death of General Wolfe, 1770. It was a history painting but recent history, recounting a British victory over the French at the Battle of Quebec only...
...White House, which was shaken as much by the fact that the story had leaked as it was over the prospect of another Israeli spy, refused all comment. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office denounced the report as "totally baseless." Added Eliahu Ben-Elissar, Israel's ambassador in Washington: "Certainly after the Pollard affair, we would have been crazy...
...this particular era of publish or perish, Peter has managed to both publish and make time for students," said Benjamin F. Berger, a graduate student who helped organize the Berkowitz letter. "He is truly rare in the way he has combined roles of scholar and teacher and excel at both...