Benjamin West, P.R.A. (1738-1820)

Elijah rising up in the chariot of fire

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Benjamin West, P.R.A. (1738-1820)
Elijah rising up in the chariot of fire
pencil, pen and brown ink, on buff paper, unframed
12½ x 17 in. (31.8 x 43.2 cm.); and An unframed pencil study of trees; and An unframed pen and ink study of figures in a landscape, attributed to the same hand (3)

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the first, the artist's family and thence by descent to;
Mrs P. Howard; Sotheby's, London, 22 March 1979, part of lot 5.

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West seems not to have executed a finished painting of this subject, although he did paint another scene from the prophet's life, Elijah raising the Widow's Son (now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art). The style of the present drawing, with loose, almost jagged lines delineating the prophet's mantle falling to the ground as he is swept away, suggests a very late date.