Sketch for Saint Paul Shaking Off the Viper
Benjamin West
- Art Funded
- 1945
- Dimensions
- 129 x 72 cm
- Vendor
- Christie's
St Paul shaking off a viper into a fire in one of his first miracles in Malta.
Crowds of people around in the moonlight. This is a sketch for the altarpiece at the Royal Naval College chapel in Greenwich, where it still hangs. Signed and dated.
Provenance
Collection of L W Neeld.