West Point from Phillipstown. To Colonel S. Thayer Superintendant of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point

by William James Bennett, c.

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William James Bennett c. 1787-1844 was born in England and received his training at the Royal Academy. He emigrated to the United States in 1826, and is best known for his views of American cities, including the Hudson Valley Region, Niagara Falls, and numerous port cities such as New York, Charleston, and Buffalo. Views of West Point were extremely popular in the nineteenth century and this view, after one of Bennett's best-known paintings, was exhibited at the Annual Exhibition of the

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