Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A.
& U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968.  Fayette
County. Artists of Kentucky, pages 620-621.

WILLIAM WEST, who came to Lexington in 1788, was the first painter that
ever settled in the vast region "this side of the mountains."  He was the
son of the then rector of St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, and had studied
under the celebrated Benjamin West, in London.  He family was a talented
one.  His brother, Edward West, who had proceeded him to Lexington, three
years before, was the wonderful mechanical genius who invented the
steamboat in that city in 1793, and his son WILLIAM E. WEST, is now
remembered for the portrait he painted of Lord Byron, at Leghorn.  William
West painted but few pictures, and they were of only moderate merit.  He
is best known as "the first painter who came to the West."  He died in New
York.

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