American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 205
eyes. However this may be, the inferiority of Trumbulls works after 1816, on his return home, isunmistakable. To this period belong the four large paintings in the Capitol at Washington bywhich Colonel Trumbull is generally estimated as an artist. These pictures, the Declaration ofIndependence, the… … significant ofmoral power,and the othertwo becausethe absolutetriumph overthe countrysenemy de-notes com-manding mil-itary power,— are en-larged copiesof the smalloriginals atNew Haven.No interestattaches tothem as works of art.In connectionwith govern-ment patron-age of art,however, assigns of…
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