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AFTER JOHN TRUMBULL, 19TH CENTURY
AFTER JOHN TRUMBULL, 19TH CENTURY

Portrait of George Washington

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AFTER JOHN TRUMBULL, 19TH CENTURY
Portrait of George Washington
oil on canvas
36x26in.
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Please note the following provenance:

Probably Warner Washington, nephew of President George Washington

Displayed in the entrance hall of Warner Washington's homestead, Llewellyn, the painting is believed to have belonged to the President's nephew in the early 19th century (see Wayland, The Washingtons and Their Homes (Virginia, 1944), pp. 193-195).

拍品專文

This image of Washington is based on the series of canvases begun by John Trumbull (1756-1843) in 1785 which depicted crucial events of the American War of Independence. In 1775, Trumbull served in the Continental Army as an aide-de-camp to Washington. He subsequently studied painting in London, and returned in 1789 to the newly United States with several uncompleted canvases. Of these, three required portrait sittings with Washington, and were completed by the First President's death. In combining the elements of contemporary history and portrait painting, Trumbull helped to create the extraordinary cult of Washington extant both in Washington's lifetime and well after his death in 1799.