FOUNDERS; PAINTED BY JOHN TRUMBULL. WILLIAM ANTHONY HAY, CIVITAS. CONTINUED
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 19 July 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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1790 DEATH OF GENERAL MERCER, TRUMBULL
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| 1:00.7 | I'm John Bachelor with Professor William Anthony Hay of Arizona State University, helping me to |
| 1:07.0 | understand heroic paintings before and after the success of the American Revolution |
| 1:13.7 | through the eye, one eye was good, one was not, of a man named John Trumbull, who was born in |
| 1:20.7 | Connecticut to a very famous governor who changed sides. Mr. Trumbull was a Harvard graduate, |
| 1:27.2 | good for him, but in 1789, he returned to his |
| 1:31.0 | native land. Was he disappointed or was he pleased to our understanding well? He was pleased. He was |
| 1:37.4 | ambitious. And he saw, he was, he had not been pleased at his prospects in England, painting in England. |
| 1:45.8 | He'd always wanted to come back. |
| 1:47.0 | He was a sincere American patriot, and he had not gotten the number of commissions |
| 1:52.3 | and the kind of commissions in England he wanted. |
| 1:55.0 | So he had the idea of painting the revolution, of doing what West had done James Wolfe, the victor at Quebec, doing that for Washington and doing that for other American figures. |
| 2:11.1 | Trumbull had been a friend to Thomas Jefferson. He'd known Jefferson in Paris. In fact, Jefferson tried to talk him into being a diplomat and to working for Jefferson in Paris, working as a secretary. |
| 2:22.9 | And instead, Trumbull goes back to America to teach us, to show us, and literally show us the revolution. |
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