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gptkbp:instance_of
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gptkb:painter
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gptkbp:art_movement
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American art
History painting
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gptkbp:associated_with
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gptkb:American_Revolution
gptkb:Royal_Academy_of_Arts
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gptkbp:awards
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gptkb:Royal_Academy_Gold_Medal
Royal Academician
Honorary Member of the Royal Academy
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gptkbp:birth_date
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October 10, 1738
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gptkbp:birth_year
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1738
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gptkbp:born
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October 10, 1738
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gptkbp:born_in
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gptkb:Pennsylvania
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gptkbp:child
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gptkb:Elizabeth_West
gptkb:Benjamin_West_Jr.
gptkb:William_West
gptkb:Mary_West
gptkb:Raphaelle_West
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gptkbp:children
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gptkb:3
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gptkbp:contribution
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American art history
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gptkbp:death_date
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March 11, 1820
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gptkbp:death_year
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1820
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gptkbp:died
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March 11, 1820
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gptkbp:died_in
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gptkb:London
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gptkbp:education
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gptkb:Royal_Academy_of_Arts
gptkb:Royal_Academy_Schools
Apprenticeship with a local painter
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gptkbp:exhibited_at
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gptkb:Royal_Academy_of_Arts
Exhibition of the Royal Academy
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gptkbp:famous_for
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use of color
depicting Native American subjects
depicting historical events
depicting battles
dramatic compositions
large-scale history paintings
depicting religious themes
depicting political themes
depicting classical themes
depicting cultural themes
depicting social themes
depicting national identity
depicting moral themes
depicting allegorical subjects
depicting heroic figures
depicting historical narratives
depicting significant events
depicting the Age of Change
depicting the Age of Discovery
depicting the Age of Enlightenment
depicting the Age of Exploration
depicting the Age of Industry
depicting the Age of Innovation
depicting the Age of Modernity
depicting the Age of Postmodernity
depicting the Age of Progress
depicting the Age of Reason
depicting the Age of Reform
depicting the Age of Revolution
depicting the Age of Science
depicting the Age of Technology
depicting the American Revolution
depicting the British Empire
depicting the Enlightenment
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gptkbp:famous_work
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gptkb:The_Death_of_General_Wolfe
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Benjamin West
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:John_Singleton_Copley
gptkb:Thomas_Eakins
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gptkbp:influenced_artists
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gptkb:Albert_Bierstadt
gptkb:Frederic_Edwin_Church
gptkb:John_Trumbull
gptkb:Thomas_Hart_Benton
gptkb:Edward_Hicks
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gptkbp:influenced_by
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gptkb:Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo
gptkb:William_Hogarth
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gptkbp:is_studied_in
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gptkb:William_Hogarth
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gptkbp:known_for
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gptkb:Art_History
portraits
history painting
mythological subjects
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gptkbp:legacy
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Influence on American art
Mentor to many American artists
Pioneer of history painting in America
influential in the development of American painting
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gptkbp:lives_in
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gptkb:London
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gptkbp:nationality
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gptkb:American
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gptkbp:notable_exhibition
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Exhibition of 1790
Exhibition of 1813
Exhibition of 1784
Exhibition of 1805
Exhibition of 1776
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gptkbp:notable_students
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gptkb:John_Singleton_Copley
gptkb:Samuel_Morse
gptkb:Charles_Willson_Peale
gptkb:Thomas_Sully
gptkb:Washington_Allston
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gptkbp:notable_work
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gptkb:The_Battle_of_the_Boyne
gptkb:The_Death_of_General_Wolfe
gptkb:Penn's_Treaty_with_the_Indians
gptkb:Agrippina_Landing_at_Brundisium_with_the_Ashes_of_Germanicus
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gptkbp:place_of_birth
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gptkb:Springfield,_Pennsylvania
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gptkbp:place_of_death
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gptkb:London,_England
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gptkbp:position_held
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President of the Royal Academy
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gptkbp:spouse
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Margaret West
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gptkbp:style
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gptkb:Neoclassicism
gptkb:neoclassicism
gptkb:Romanticism
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Samuel_Morse
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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3
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