, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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A Midsummer's Afternoon with a Methodist Preacher, 1777
Philip James de Loutherbourg
French, British, 1740
- 1812
oil on canvas
96.5 x 126.4 cm
Purchased 1932
National Gallery of Canada (no. 4057)
Born in Strasbourg, Loutherbourg rose to the position of court painter to Louis XV and became a member of the Académie Royale before settling in London in 1771. In his choice of subject for this genre piece, Loutherbourg links the art of painting to the eighteenth-century English tradition of moralizing and satirical caricatures. In composing the landscape, however, he has clearly responded to French and Dutch painting. Frame: carved wood, gilded. Britain, first half 18th century, after a French model
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