Benjamin West
Theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven
1775127 x 100.3 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, center left, below Christ's elbow: B. West / London. / 1775.
Sale Christie's, London, 19 April 2018
Provenance
Gift of the artist to Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801), Zurich, in 1777
Markgraf Carl-Friedrich von Baden (died 1829), Karlsruhe, and by descent in the family to
Elizabeth Albers-Schoenberg, Zurich
sale Sotheby's, London, 17 June 1970, nr. 38, where acquired by the following
with Leger Galleries, London
with Central Picture Galleries, New York, by 1972
with Old Hall Gallery, Ltd., Iden, Rye, where acquired by the La Salle University Art Museum in 1973
sale Christie's, London, 19 April 2018, nr. 130
Other works by Benjamin West
Self-portrait
c. 1770
c. 1770
Venus Consoling Cupid, Stung by a Bee
Portrait of George, Prince of Wales, and Prince Frederick, later Duke of York
1778
1778
Omnia Vincit Amor, or The Power of Love in the Three Elements
1809
1809
Hagar and Ishmael
1776, reworked 1803
1776, reworked 1803