NOUN
- English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820)
How To Use Benjamin West In A Sentence
- Her emotional journey to Brundisium caught the imagination of neoclassical painters in the eighteenth century, including William Turner, Gavin Hamilton, and Benjamin West, whose famous painting Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus was commissioned by the archbishop of York, Dr. Robert Drummond. Caesars’ Wives