John Trumbull (1756-1843) was the first American painter to produce a series of history paintings; they depict scenes of the Revolutionary War.John Trumbull, the son of a Connecticut lawyer who became...
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At the age of eight, John Trumbull wrote a burlesque of his mother's genealogy, a genealogy which his mother prized. According to Trumbull's later account, he "deserved and received a good box on the ...
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Artists and historians since the mid nineteenth century have acknowledged John Trumbull as the United States' premier "patriot-artist" of the early national period and have recognized his artistic con...
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John Trumbull
John Trumbull