藝術家George R. WEST (?-1860) 生平簡歷

死亡地点： New Zealand

地址： Wash., DC, active 1856-60

职业： Topographical artist, panoramist, painter of oriental scenes

展出： Washington AA, 1857 (oriental scenes); Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1987 (2 watercolors of houses in Shanghai).

会员： Washington AA (founding mem.)

工作： Bank of Hongkong Collection.

评论： Traveled to China with Caleb Cushing (American Minister to China) in the late 1840s. He met Boston physician and traveler Benjamin Lincoln Ball in Shanghai in 1849 and traveled with him on the China coast. West is listed with the American firm of Bush & Co. in Hong Kong in the directory of foreign residents in China in 1852. His sketches from the China trip were used by William Heine (Commodore Perry's official artist on the Japan expedition), Joseph Kyle, and Jacob Dallas in the creation of a panorama, "China and Japan Illustrated," which was shown at Academy Hall, NYC, in 1856. West was to decorate several of the Committee rooms in the House and Senate wings of the Capitol building, but resigned and destroyed the work he had already completed after a dispute over the scenes. Appointed commissioner of New Zealand, he died shortly after his arrival.

来源： G&W; N.Y. Herald, Jan. 27, 1856 (courtesy J. Earl Arrington); Washington Art Association Cat., 1857. More recently, see, McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.; Brewington, 409; Gerdts, American Artists in Japan, 4; add'l info. courtesy of Eric Politzer.