Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain in the Year 1783 information
Lost Benjamin West painting
The Henry Moses engraving of the original Reception of the American Loyalists by WestBenjamin West's own replica of the Reception as the background of John Eardley Wilmot
Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain in the Year 1783 is a lost painting by American-born artist Benjamin West, depicting the return of the Loyalists to the British Empire following their expulsion from the victorious United States after the American Revolutionary War. Unlike West's established historical styles, Reception features a highly allegorical composition of European, Black, and Native American refugees being welcomed back into the fold by Britannia, who presides over the British Crown Jewels while flanked by angels and government officials surveying the scene.[1]
The original painting and its date of creation have been lost but is survived by a pair of replicas, one by engraver Henry Moses and one by West himself in the background of a later portrait of John Eardley Wilmot, completed in 1811 and 1812 respectively.[2][3]
^Allen, Thomas B. "Who Were the Tories?". Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War. Archived from the original on 2013-02-21. Retrieved 2013-03-16.
^"Black Loyalists in New Brunswick, 1783–1854: John Eardley Wilmot". University of New Brunswick Libraries. Archived from the original on 2014-03-31. Retrieved 2013-11-14.
^Norton, Mary Beth. "Eardley-Wilmot, Britannia, and the Loyalists: A Painting by Benjamin West", Perspectives in American History, 6 (1972), pp. 128–31
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