Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution; by Richard Brookhiser; Yale University Press; 276 pp., $30.00 In Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American ...

Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution, by Richard Brookhiser (Yale, 276 pp., $30) Trumbull marks a departure from the author’s previous biographical subjects, all of whom ...

It was his sisters’ needlework that first attracted John Trumbull to art. His father found the attraction inappropriate on two counts: first, young John had lost the use of one eye in a childhood ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Richard Brookhiser talked about the childhood of Revolutionary War era painter John Trumbull. The American Revolution Institute of the Society ...

The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and ...

Napoleon Sarony, “The Declaration of Independence,” 1843–1853. Harry T. Peters, “America on Stone.” Lithography Collection. Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History This hand-colored ...

Although painters are often the subjects of monumental biographies, few merit them. Take the 880-page 2021 biography Francis Bacon: Revelations. Critics loved it. Yet, more swiftly than reading it, ...