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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sizer, Theodore, "The works of Colonel John Trumbull, artist of the American Revolution," Rev. ed., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. https://siris ...

"Handbook of the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery," New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992. "Yale U. Portrait Index", New Haven, 1951, P. 120. "A checklist of American paintings at ...

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Labeled Portrait of an Officer, Artist Unknown, it looked like a good, average, 18th-Century antique wall-piece, the kind that lends hints of lineage to a paneled drawing room. Bailey Stanton, Chicago ...

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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, ...