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'''John Trumbull''' (Lebanon, Connecticut, 6 June, 1756 - [[New York City]], 10 Nov., 1843) American [[painter]]. He is known as the artist of the [[American Revolution]] (millions of American schoolchildren have seen the Revolution through his eyes). At [[Harvard]] (1772 - 1773) he studied works of [[Brooke Taylor]] and [[William Hogarth]] .
Trumbull [[portraits ]] include those of [[Thomas Jefferson]] (1788), [[George Washington]] (1790), George Clinton (1791), [[Alexander Hamilton]] (1792) and [[John Adams]] (1797).
Some of his paintings hang in the United States Capitol, the [[Yale University]] Art Gallery, Connecticut, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City and the [[Boston]] Museum of Fine Arts.
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Trumbull's fame rests mainly on the four paintings, the "Battle of Bunker Hill," and "Death of Montgomery," which two pictures still stand unexcelled in American historical painting (both at Yale University Art Gallery), and on such strong portraits as those of Washington and Alexander Hamilton. <ref> [http://www.virtualology.com/virtualmuseumofart/hallofamericanart/JOHNTRUMBULL.COM/ John Trumbull] </ref>
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[[File:Trumbull Death of Montgomery.jpg|thumb|center|340px|Death of Montgomery, 1786.]]
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[[The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill]], 1786.
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[[Category:American Painters]]
[[Category:American Portrait Painters]]