Despite the poor quality of his enlargements,
John Trumbull remains the most important artistic chronicler of the struggle for American independence.
Caption:
John Trumbull: Portrait of Alexander Hamilton.
The
John Trumbull Collection, for example, contains his masterpieces such as "George Washington Before the Battle of Trenton" and "The Declaration of Independence."
These Broadway versions of the Founders, plucked from their solemn poses in
John Trumbull's famous portrait and forced to tread the boards, are fractious ideologues floundering in a fudged timeline as they squabble their way through the summer of 1776 at Philadelphia's Continental Congress.
(16) If one is going to discuss the
John Trumbull painting, the "Interactive John Trumball's Declaration of Independence" website allows users to scroll over any of the men represented and find out his identity.
Alternating Washington's turns in the chair with episodes in the lives of painters such as
John Trumbull and Gilbert Stuart, he shows us how the course of human events in the young nation helped to break new ground in image-making as well.
Sixteen-year-old
John Trumbull, for example, borrowed William Hogarth's The Analysis of Beauty of 1753 from the Harvard College Library on 28 February 1772.
However, the identification of the familiar painting by
John Trumbull on page 33 as "The Signing of the Declaration of Independence" is inaccurate.
From British artist
John Trumbull informing Martha Washington that is he sending her an engraving of one of his portraits of her husband (which engraving still hangs in Mount Vernon today), to Queen Victoria offering consolation to Mary Todd Lincoln, to a girl with a pen pal in India asking Jacqueline Kennedy if she can accompany the first lady on a trip to that country, to Laura Bush writing a letter to the children of American after 9/11 to reassure them that people love and care about them and are looking out for their safety, "Letters To The White House" is a compendium of bits of heretofore obscure White House history that spans two hundred years.
The example below uses a famous painting by
John Trumbull, Declaration of Independence, as the basis of information about an historical event.
The 204 Harvard men included the painter
John Trumbull and congressman Fisher Ames but most became lawyers, doctors, business professionals or politicians or followed their fathers as planters and merchants.
Louis Khan's 1953 Yale University Art Gallery, built to house
John Trumbull's 1832 gift of 100 paintings, was the fast modernist addition to Yale's gothic campus.
