T his John Trumbull painting is often billed as “ Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776,” so it’s no surprise that many people think it depicts the signing of the Declaration of ...

Trumbull became one of West’s pupils and struck up a friendship with Gilbert Stuart, soon to be America’s greatest portraitist. West, along with painter John Copley, served as an artistic ...

Huge Trumbull canvases hang in the Rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., and provided the backdrop to many photographs of the mob that stormed the building on Jan. 6, 2021.

John Trumbull’s Revolutionary Iconography The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777, by John Trumbull (c. 1831)(Buyenlarge/Getty Images) ...

But these and other miniature portraits are followed by six essays on English historians, and as one studies the grounds of Mr. Strachey’s approval of Hume and Gibbon and the kind of disapproval ...