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John Trumbull Painter of America's Epic
A biographical sketch of John Trumbull recounts his rise from Connecticut soldier and Harvard student to renowned painter of the American Revolution. It details his battles, his artistic studies in London and Paris, his quest to depict key moments such as Bunker Hill and Yorktown, and his culminating Declaration of Independence canvas and Capitol rotunda series. The article notes his ties to Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, and Yale, and his death in 1843.
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Centerville
J. Bascom Parker
J. ‘Bascom
John Trumbull
Rhode Island
Trumbull
Boston
Paris
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin West
London
West
Andre
America
Lord Germain
Arch Tebel
George Washington
Washington
Rotunda
Capitol
Bunker Hill
Montgomery
Quebec
Princeton
Burgoyne
Saratoga
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Jonathan
Jonathan Trumbull
Connecticut
United States
Sam
Harvard College
John Singleton Copley
Harvard
Roxbury
Cambridge
Gates
Ticonderoga
Northern Department
Sullivan
Joshua Reynolds
Thomas Jefferson
France
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
Robespierre
Pinckney
Temple
Louis David
David
Frumbull
John Adams
Court of St. James
Colo. Trumbull
James Monroe
Madison
Monticello
Chaillot
Yale College
Yale Art Gallery
Trenton
Connecticut Yankee
John
Western Newspaper