Birthplace Of Benjamin West
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Benjamin West was born in this house on October 10, 1738, and died in London, Eng, on March 1, 1820. From painting portraits in Philadelphia for a mere subsistence to becoming the painter to the king of England, standing with Reynolds and Lawrence in his profession, one of the founders of the Royal Academy and its second president, succeeding Reynolds, seems a bit of romance rather than a statement of fact. |