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John Trumbull

Painter of the
Revolutionary War

John Trumbull

Painter of the
Revolutionary War

Stuart A. P. Murray

First published 2009 by M.E. Sharpe

Published 2015 by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX 14 4RN
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor Francis & Group, an informa business

SERIES CONSULTANT

Jeffrey W. Allison
Paul Mellon Collection
Educator, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Cover Art:
The Death of General Mercer at the Rattle of Princeton (John Trumbull);
engraving of The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunkers Hill,
June 17, 1775 (John Trumbull).

Series created by Kid Graphica, LLC
Series designed by Gilda Hannah

Map: Mapping Specialists Limited

Copyright 2009 by Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Murray, Stuart, 1948
John Trumbull: painter of the Revolutionary War / Stuart A. P. Murray.

p. cm(Show me America)

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7656-8150-8 (hardcover: alk. paper)
1. Trumbull, John, 17561843Juvenile literature. 2. United
StatesHistoryRevolution, 17751783Art and the revolution
Juvenile literature. 3. United StatesHistoryRevolution, 17751783
BiographyJuvenile literature. 4. PaintersUnited StatesBiography
Juvenile literature. 5. United States. ArmyBiographyJuvenile
literature. I. Title.

ND237.T8M87 2009 759.13dc22

2008003235

ISBN 13: 9780765681508 (hbk)

Contents

The greatest motive I had or have for engaging in or for continuing my pursuit of painting has been the wish of commemorating the great events of our countrys Revolution.

John Trumbull

By the time John Trumbull, the patriot-artist, came to live at New Haven in 1837 he had become a legend. One can well imagine a fond father pointing out to his son the tall, erect Colonel, who still retained his fine military bearing, and proudly saying: There, my boy, goes Colonel Trumbull, General Washingtons aide-de-camp! This scene might have taken place on the elm-shaded streets of New Haven in 1840, nearly one and a half generations after the glorious year of 1775. Trumbull was a living embodiment of a heroic past. This, to the aged veteran, was soul satisfying.

Theodore Sizer, editor,
The Autobiography of Colonel John Trumbull,
(1953 edition preface)

On numerous paintings connected with our Revolutionary history, Colonel Trumbulls fame as an artist may securely rest.

Samuel F.B. Morse, Eulogy, November 1843

To his country he gave his sword and pencil.

Trumbulls inscription on his memorial

Detail from The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. John Trumbull, 1819

The committee assigned to draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776 presents the document to John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Shown in this detail from Trumbulls historical painting are (left to right) John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin.

[My] taste for drawing began to dawn early [and] for several years [the] floors were constantly scrawled with my rude attempts.

John Trumbull

N ineteen-year-old Charlie Loring Elliott was full of hope when he visited the New York City studio of Americas most famous artist in 1830. Elliott had come from western New York State to ask Colonel John Trumbull to accept him as a pupil in portrait painting.

Colonel Trumbull was a handsome, dignified gentleman in his seventies. He was a former officer in the Revolutionary War with fine manners and an old-fashioned formality. The Colonel, as he was known, had painted a number of the nations most famous pictures. These were scenes from the American Revolution of more than forty-five years before.

Four of those paintings hung in the Capitol in Washington, D.C. The Colonels works told the story of the founding of the United States. Shown in his pictures were individuals he had personally known, although by 1830 most of them had passed away and were only names in history books. They included John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, the Marquis de Lafayette, and General George Washington himself.

The son of a wealthy colonial governor, John Trumbull had been brought up like an aristocrat and had once associated with European royalty. By the 1830s, however, his world had changed, as had popular taste in the arts. The elderly Colonel was considered out of touch with current American art and artists. Still, he was much admired for all he had done in his life.

Trumbull looked over Elliotts drawings and his two oil paintings. Elliott knew young artists seldom received encouragement from Colonel Trumbull, who was president of the American Academy of Fine Arts. As he studied the pictures, the Colonel was most interested in designs for buildings Elliott had done for his fathers architectural firm at home.

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