John Trumbull

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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).

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, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

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