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Benjamin West
Saul and the Witch of Endor
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Benjamin West
Saul and the Witch of Endor
1777
50.5 x 65.1 cm
Oil on canvas
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford
Gift of Clara Hinton Gould
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Collection catalogues
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser,
American paintings before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum
, Hartford; New Haven, 1996, nr. 485
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71H3152
The ghost of Samuel appears to the witch of Endor; Saul falls prostrate to the ground
Other works by Benjamin West
Sarah Ursula Rose
1756
Una and the Lion (Mary Hall in the Character of Una)
1771
Colonel Guy Johnson
1776
The Battle of La Hogue
1778
Self-portrait
c. 1770