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Painting of King Lear raging in a storm beside robed companions under a broken wooden roof, with lightning in the sky.

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King Lear, Benjamin West (1788), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Via artnap.com

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Benjamin West's King Lear from 1788 shows the aged king clutching a billowing red cloak amid a violent storm, his arms raised against the wind. Figures in red and olive robes press around him, one holding a torch aloft, while a half-naked figure crouches at right beneath a ruined wooden roof lit by lightning.

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1788

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Public domain

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