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Painter John Trumbull and his Revolutionary passport
The article recounts John Trumbull, Connecticut born artist and former aide to General Washington, who sketched British positions at Bunker Hill and later used his famous painting as a passport to evade danger in Revolutionary France. It covers his career from Harvard student to aspiring painter, his time in London and Paris, the tolerance of Robespierre era France, and his eventual return to America with major historical portraits including The Battle of Bunker Hill.
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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
West
Andre
America
Lord Germain
Tuthill Bridewell
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
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
Revolutionary
Lafayette
Daniel Webster
Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Mr. Webster
Webster