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Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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on being an artist he made no further objection—Avhich indeed wouldhave been unreasonable, seeing that his son Avas then tAventy-seven—and in 1783 Trumbullsailed for England, where he Avas again kindly received by Mr. West, and at once resumedhis studies under his old teacher. In 1784, Dunlap, on his arrival in London, found Trum-bull in Wests studio, Avhere he Avas established as the successor of Gilbert Stuart, Avho hadnow set up for himself in London as a portrait-painter. AVest had employed Trumbull tomake a copy of his Battle of La Hogue, one of the series of historical pictures in which.West celebrated the victories of the English, and of which the Death of Wolfe is the best ^7? 7^ AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 1/9 Known, and in the intervals of his work upon this copy Trumbull painted his first originalcomposition— Priam Bringing back to his Palace the Body of Hector. This picture was nomore than a school-work in the manner of West, and is chiefly interesting as showing him in
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FOX-GRAPES AND PEACHES. FROM THE PAINTING BY RAPHAEL PEALE IN THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS. COPIED BY PERMISSION. the very beginning of his career adopting the style to which later he owed all his distinction; the figures painted in miniature in oil, the heads finished with great spirit and with a touch at once delicate and free. Had Trumbull never attempted large works, but contented himself •with the small canvases on which the originals of his Bunker Hill, the Death of Mont- III x8o ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. gomery, and The Sortie from Gibraltar are painted, or liad lie left nothing more behindhim than the oil-studies in miniature for the paintings in the rotunda of the Capitol atWashington, his reputation would haAe been much greater than it is to-day; for, unfortu-nately, while these smaller works still remain to us, and while those of them that are in thegallery at New Haven are well cared for, they are seen there by few persons, and little valuedby the public, whi

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