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Sketch for Saint Paul Shaking Off the Viper
Artist: Benjamin West (1738 - 1820)
Location: Tate
Date: 1786
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 129 x 72 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £11 (Total: £11)
Vendor: Christie's
Review number: 1384 (1945)
Provenance:
Collection of L W Neeld.
Description:
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.
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