The Autobiography Of Colonel John Trumbull, Patriot-artist 1756-1843 (Library of American Art)

This edition of The Autobiography of Colonel John Trumbull is an unabridged republication of the first edition published in New Haven, Connecticut in 1953. It is reprinted by special arrangement with Yale University Press. The autobiography, Reminiscences and Letters of John Trumbull from 1756 to 1842 (copyright 1841 by John Trumbull) was published at New York and London by Wiley and Putnam and at New Haven by R. L. Hamlen, who printed the volume. Trumbull holds a number of unique he was (1) the earliest academically trained college graduate from the British-American colonies to become a professional painter (a fact that was to near to him to be noticed); (2) par excellence, the documentary recorder of the Revolutionary War; (3) the first American painter to be entrusted by the Federal Government with a large and important commission; (4) the founder, as well as the architect, of the earliest art museum in America connected with an institute of higher learning, the Trumbull Gallery at Yale being among the earliest art museums in the Anglo-Saxon world; (5) the author of the earliest extended account of an individual American artist to be written and published in this country; (6) "the Oldest Surviving American officer of the Army of the Revolution." If Trumbull was the architect of the 1793 First Presbyterian Church at Philadelphia, as he might have been, he has (7) the added honor of being among the first to introduce the neoclassic style in America.