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The Death of Socrates

Benjamin West

The Death of Socrates

Benjamin West
  • Date: 1756
  • Style: Neoclassicism
  • Genre: history painting
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From 1746 to 1759, West worked in Pennsylvania, mostly painting portraits. While in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1756, West's patron, a gunsmith named William Henry, encouraged him to design a "Death of Socrates" based on an engraving in Charles Rollin's Ancient History; the resulting composition, which significantly differs from West's source, has been called "the most ambitious and interesting painting produced in colonial America".

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