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Trumbull's Battle Painting That Aided Escape From France
The account tells how John Trumbull, Connecticut adjutant and aspiring painter, sketched the Battle of Bunker Hill for Washington, fled to Paris, and used his art to secure a passport from Robespierre's France. His rise from military service to eminent painter of the Revolution is traced through Paris, London, and America, highlighting the peril he faced and the eventual triumph of his historical canvases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Union
Roxbury
Breed's Hill
New England
Bulldog Colrage
Copley
John Trumbull
Harvard
John Singleton Copley
George Washington
Cambridge
Trumbull
Washington
Alde Decarn
Gates
Ticonderoga
Northern Department
Sullivan
Rhode Island
Boston
Paris
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin West
London
West
Andre
America
Lord Germain
Ile Batué
Bunker Hill
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Thomas Jefferson
France
John Adams
Court of St
James
Ater
Jefferson
New York
Richard Henry Lee
Francis Lewis
George Clinton
Lewis Morris
Roger Sheman
Euledelenie
New Hampshire
John Hancock
Samuel Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Josiah Bartlett
Charleston
S. C
Philadelpha
John Jay
England
Europe
Hunker Hill
Stuttgart
Germany
Here Muller
Robesplarre
Talleyrand
Pinckney
Charles C. Pinckney
South Carolina
Temple
Louis David
David
Robespierre
Louvre
Republic
Calais
Burgeyzie
Lord Carnivallis
Allwess
Yale College
Wiich
Yoleart
Amerca
Bunker Bay
Burker Hill
Lafayette
Daniel Webster
Hencie
Cheten
Rnven
Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Mr. Webster
Webster
Ale Art Gallery