"Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of" Topic
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Tango01  | 25 Dec 2024 4:13 p.m. PST |
…the American Revolution
"John Trumbull (1756–1843) experienced the American Revolution firsthand—he served as aid to George Washington and Horatio Gates, was shot at, and was jailed as a spy. He made it his mission to record the war, giving visual form to what most citizens of the new United States thought: that they had brought into the world a great and unprecedented political experiment. His purpose, he wrote, was "to preserve and diffuse the memory of the noblest series of actions which have ever presented themselves in the history of man." Although Trumbull's contemporaries viewed him as a painter, Trumbull thought of himself as a historian…"
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Armand
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 John the OFM | 25 Dec 2024 6:43 p.m. PST |
Interesting. Brookhiser is a solid author and AWI scholar. |
| Tango01 | 26 Dec 2024 4:19 p.m. PST |
Glad you found it interesting…
Armand
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