Author Richard Brookhiser talked about the childhood of Revolutionary War era painter John Trumbull. The American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati in Washington, DC, hosted this ...

There’s something in the American Southwest that not only calls out to generations of artists, but has enabled some of the greatest American and European painters to ascend to the realm of visionary.

Labeled Portrait of an Officer, Artist Unknown ... He was, in fact, “90% sure it was a Trumbull” (John Trumbull, 18th-Century American historical painter and portraitist).

click image for close-up John Trumbull's life-size painting of the First Continental Congress, assembled to sign the Declaration of Independence, was copied from a miniature (21.2 x 31.2 inches ...