Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution ... Having lost sight in one eye didn’t stop him. “Politics and war surrounded his childhood,” but it was art that ...

John Trumbull, a native of Lebanon, Conn., served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, but it was his deeds later in life that immortalized him as an iconic participant in that ...

Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution ... It was only with the end of the War of 1812, and the reconstruction of the Capitol, which the British had destroyed along with ...

John Trumbull’s "Death of General Warren at the ... The political freedom resulting from the war was earned on battlefields at Lexington and Concord, at the Battle of Bunker Hill and beyond ...

With the notable exception of portraits, images dating from the American Revolutionary War are exceedingly rare ... Among the era’s artists, John Trumbull considered himself to be uniquely ...

"Art historian Irma Jaffe re-identified him as John Dickinson of Pennsylvania ... or his name to anything that would further the war." Trumbull himself was a great patriot, which might explain ...

As depicted in John Trumbull’s now-iconic 19th-century painting ... inconceivable to most living Americans. The Revolutionary War, raging at that time, saw men young and old answer the Colonies ...

This John Trumbull painting is often billed as “Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776,” so it’s no surprise that many people think it depicts the signing of the Declaration of ...

The most famous image of America’s founding, John Trumbull’s painting “Declaration of Independence,” does not depict the events of July 4, 1776. Rather, it portrays a scene that took place ...