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214 Trumbull Gallery of Paintings in Yale College. 
become dim, nor has the force of his mind, the vividness of his 
imagination, or the delicacy of his touch abated. 
Of this any observer will be convinced, who sees the six paint- 
ings now in the gallery, which have been done within the last 
five or six years, and two of the most difficult during the last 
season. 
A few years ago he commenced copying his historical paintings 
upon canvass of the size of nine feet by six; the great pictures 
at Washington being eighteen by twelve, while the original stu- 
dies are twenty inches by thirty. 
Of the copies of the intermediate size, nine feet by six, five 
have been some years finished, and preparations are made for 
finishing the other three, provided any state, city, university, or 
other institution shall manifest a wish to possess a series of pic- 
tures, which, in relation to the history of this country and to the 
art of painting among us, must ever remain without a rival. 
Col. Trumbull still retains a large number of copies of the 
prints of the Declaration of Independence; of the Death of Gene- 
ral Montgomery in the attack on Quebec, December, 1775; of 
the Battle of Bunker’s Hill, June 17, 1775; and of the sortie of 
Gibraltar, November 27, 1781, which terminated one of the most 
memorable of sieges, and was in truth an event of the American 
Revolution, although its scene was in Europe. 
~ Col. Trumbull is the sole survivor of Gen. Washington’s pri- 
vate military family—of those gentlemen who, sharing his full 
er were about his person in the tent and in the battle 
eld. 
In relation to his historical pictures he enjoys the rare advan- 
tage of a personal acquaintance with the individuals whose p0T 
traits he has preserved and of having participated in their dangers 
and sufferings. 
The Trumbull Gallery has a claim toa place in this Journal 
because it contains the earliest, and hitherto the best historical 
‘paintings which this country* has produced. In addition to these, 
there are hung in the same room so many other pictures of high 
Interest, that the whole collection presents a splendid triumph 
‘the art, at an early day, and exhibits a magnificent and imposiMg 
Spectacle, 
‘ox mee although an American and the master and instructor of Trumbull, 
. labors chiefly to England. 
