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John Trumbull and the Battle That Saved His Life in Paris
The Connecticut artist who painted the Battle of Bunker Hill later used that work to secure a passport out of Revolutionary France. Trumbull, once Washington’s adjutant general and student of Benjamin West, navigated danger in Paris during Robespierre's era. He sought Louis David's help, and a quick exit was earned when David claimed the painting was worth many passports. Trumbull returned to America and completed major Revolutionary canvases, ending in poverty before Yale secured his remaining works for an annuity.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Union
Roxbury
Breed’s Hill
New England
Copley
John Trumbull
Harvard
John Singleton Copley
George Washington
Cambridge
Trumbull
Washington
Gates
Ticonderoga
Northern Department
Sullivan
Rhode Island
Boston
Paris
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin West
London
Andre
America
Lord Germain
George‘Washgton
Tuthill Bridewell
West
Bunker Hill
Joshua Reynolds
Thomas Jefferson
France
John Adams
Court of St
James
Jefferson
New York
Richard Henry Lee
Francis Lewis
George Clinton
Lewis Morris
Roger Sherman
Philadelphia
New Hampshire
John Hancock
Samuel Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Josiah Bartlett
Charleston
S. C
John Jay
England
Europe
Battle of
Stuttgart
Germany
Herr Muller
Robespierre
Talleyrand
Charles C. Pinckney
South Carolina
Temple
Louis David
David
Louvre
Republic
Calais
General Burgoyne
Lord Cornwallis
Yale ‘College
Yale Art “Gallery
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