In August 1763, West arrived in England, on what he initially intended as a visit on his way back to America. In fact, he never returned to America. He stayed for a month at Bath with William Allen, who was also in the country, and visited his half-brother Thomas West at Reading at the urging of his father. In London he was introduced to Richard Wilson and his student Joshua Reynolds. He moved into a house in Bedford Street, Covent Garden. The first picture he painted in England "Angelica and Medora", along with a portrait of General Monckton, and his "Cymon and Iphigenia", painted in Rome, were shown at the exhibition in Spring Gardens in 1764.