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See also:TRUMBULL, See also:JOHN (1756-1843) , See also:American artist, was See also:born at See also:Lebanon, See also:Connecticut, on the 6th of See also:June 1756, the son of See also:Jonathan Trumbull (1710-1785), See also:governor of Connecticut. He graduated at Harvard in 1773, served in the See also:War of See also:Independence, rendering a particular service at See also:Boston by sketching plans of the See also:British See also:works, and was appointed second aide-de-See also:camp to See also:General See also:Washington and in June 1776 See also:deputy See also:adjutant-general to General See also:Gates, but resigned from the See also:army in 1777. In 178o he went to See also:London to study under See also:Benjamin See also:West, but his See also:work had hardly begun when the See also:news of the See also:arrest and See also:execution of See also:Major See also:Andre, who was deputy adjutant-general in the See also:English army, suggested the arrest of Trumbull as having been an officer of similar See also:rank in the See also:Continental army; he was imprisoned for seven months. In 1784 he was again in London working under West, in whose studio he painted his " See also:Battle of Bunker See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill " and " See also:Death of See also:Montgomery," both of which are now in the Yale School of See also:Fine Arts. In 1785 Trumbull went to See also:Paris, where he made portrait sketches of See also:French See also:officers for " The Surrender of See also:Cornwallis," and began, with the assistance of See also:Jefferson, " The See also:Signing of the See also:Declaration of Independence," well-known from the See also:engraving by See also:Asher B. See also:Durand. These paintings, with " The Surrender of See also:Burgoyne," and " The Resignation of Washington," were bought by the See also:United States See also:government and placed in the Capitol at Washington. Trumbull's " Sortie from See also:Gibraltar " (1787), owned by the Boston See also:Athenaeum, is now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and a See also:series of See also:historical paintings, the " Trumbull See also:Gallery," by far the largest single collection of his works (more than 50 pictures), has been in the See also:possession of Yale See also:College since 1831, when Trumbull received from the college an See also:annuity of $1000. His portraits include full lengths of General Washington (1790) and See also:George See also:Clinton (1791), in the See also:city-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall of New See also:York—where there are also full lengths of See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton and of See also:Jay; and portraits of John See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams (1797), Jonathan Trumbull, and See also:Rufus See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King (1800); of See also:Timothy See also:Dwight and See also:Stephen See also:Van See also:Rensselaer, both at Yale; of See also:Alexander Hamilton (in the See also:Metropolitan Museum of See also:Art, New York City, and in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, both taken from Ceracchi's bust); a portrait of him-self painted in 1833; a full length of Washington, at See also:Charleston, See also:South Carolina; a full length of Washington in military See also:costume (1792), now at Yale; and portraits of See also:President and Mrs Washington (1794), in the See also:National Museum at Washington. Trumbull's own portrait was painted by See also:Stuart and by many others. In 1794 Trumbull acted as secretary to John Jay in London during the negotiation of the treaty with See also:Great See also:Britain, and in 1796 he was appointed by the commissioners sent by the two countries the fifth See also:commissioner to carry out the seventh 'See also:article of the treaty. He was president of the American See also:Academy of Fine Arts in 1816-1825. He died in New York on the loth of See also:November 1843.
See his Autobiography (New York, 1841) ; J. F. See also:Weir, John Trumbull, A brief See also:Sketch of His See also:Life, to which is added a See also:Catalogue of his Works (New York, 1901) ; and John Durand, " John Trumbull," American Art See also:Review, vol. ii. pt. 2, pp. 181-191 (Boston, 1881).
End of Article: TRUMBULL, JOHN (1756-1843)
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