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TRUMBULL, JOHN (1756-1843) , American artist, was born at Lebanon, Connecticut, on the 6th of June 1756, the son of Jonathan Trumbull (1710-1785), governor of Connecticut. He graduated at Harvard in 1773, served in the War of Independence, rendering a particular service at Boston by sketching plans of the British works, and was appointed second aide-de-camp to General Washington and in June 1776 deputy adjutant-general to General Gates, but resigned from the army in 1777. In 178o he went to London to study under Benjamin West, but his work had hardly begun when the news of the arrest and execution of Major Andre, who was deputy adjutant-general in the English army, suggested the arrest of Trumbull as having been an officer of similar rank in the Continental army; he was imprisoned for seven months. In 1784 he was again in London working under West, in whose studio he painted his " Battle of Bunker Hill " and " Death of Montgomery," both of which are now in the Yale School of Fine Arts. In 1785 Trumbull went to Paris, where he made portrait sketches of French officers for " The Surrender of Cornwallis," and began, with the assistance of Jefferson, " The Signing of the Declaration of Independence," well-known from the engraving by Asher B. Durand. These paintings, with " The Surrender of Burgoyne," and " The Resignation of Washington," were bought by the United States government and placed in the Capitol at Washington. Trumbull's " Sortie from Gibraltar " (1787), owned by the Boston Athenaeum
series of historical paintings, the " Trumbull Gallery," by far the largest single collection of his works (more than 50 pictures), has been in the possession of Yale College since 1831, when Trumbull received from the college an annuity
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See his Autobiography (New York, 1841) ; J. F. Weir, John Trumbull, A brief Sketch of His Life, to which is added a Catalogue of his Works (New York, 1901) ; and John Durand, " John Trumbull," American Art Review, vol. ii. pt. 2, pp. 181-191 (Boston, 1881). End of Article: TRUMBULL, JOHN (1756-1843) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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