Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . non June 6, 1756. While at Harvard hestudied books on drawing and painting, and copied some ofthe old masters. He graduated at seventeen, and his fatherdesired him to become a clergyman, but he resolved to devotehis life to art. The breaking out of the Revolution causedhim to exchange his pencil for a sword; in the summer of1775 we find him adjutant of the First Connecticut Regi-ment, stationed at Roxbury, Massachusetts. At the requestof Washington he made a drawing of the enemys fortifi-cations, which so pleased the c
Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . non June 6, 1756. While at Harvard hestudied books on drawing and painting, and copied some ofthe old masters. He graduated at seventeen, and his fatherdesired him to become a clergyman, but he resolved to devotehis life to art. The breaking out of the Revolution causedhim to exchange his pencil for a sword; in the summer of1775 we find him adjutant of the First Connecticut Regi-ment, stationed at Roxbury, Massachusetts. At the requestof Washington he made a drawing of the enemys fortifi-cations, which so pleased the commander-in-chief that heappointed him an aide-de-camp. He was commissionedmajor, and on being attached to the northern department ofthe army, was raised to the rank of colonel. There was somedelay of Congress in forwarding his commission, which notbeing dated to suit Colonel Trumbull, he resigned. Onabandoning his military career, he located at Boston, andresumed his art studies. In 1780 he sailed for London toplace himself under the tuition of Benjamin West; he was 314. CONNECTICUT AFTER THE REVOLUTION arrested as a rebel and thrown into prison, charged with trea-son. He was confined eight months, and then released on bailupon consenting to leave the country. His first original pic-ture, The Battle of Cannae, was completed soon after leav-ing college. After the conclusion of peace in November1783, he returned to England to continue his studies underWest. In 1785 he produced his picture of Priam bearingback to his palace the body of Hector. The praise it wonencouraged him to formulate a plan for a series of historicalpaintings, of the representative events in the American Revo-lution. The following year he painted his Battle of BunkerHill and The Death of Montgomery. He produced in1787 The Sortie of the Garrison at Gibraltar, for whichhe received $2,500. Trumbull returned to America in 1789,and painted portraits of the signers of the Declaration ofIndependence, also heads for
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