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Postmedia News: Benjamin West portrait leaves Halifax for auction block

Jan 12, 2012

He created what may be Canada's single most important artwork — the National Gallery’s The Death of General Wolfe — and now a 232-year-old self-portrait painted by the renowned Anglo-American artist Benjamin West is set to leave the country after spending much of the past century in a posh Halifax social club.

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