CHAPTER XIX. 



COLONEL TRUMBULL AND HIS PAINTINGS. 



Professor Silliman's Acquaintance with Colonel Trumbull. His interview 

 with Colonel Trumbull, in 1830. Purchase of Trumbull's Paintings by 

 Yale College. Colonel Trumbull on his Portrait of Washington. 

 The Battle of Trenton. The Battle of Bunker Hill, and General 

 Warren. Anecdote of Colonel Small. Painting of the Battle of 

 Princeton. The Death of General Mercer. Anecdotes relating to this 

 Painting. Anecdote of General Mattoon and Colonel Trumbull. The 

 Surrender of Cornwallis. 



IT was mainly through the exertions of Mr. Silli- 

 man that the historical paintings of Colonel Trum- 

 bull, as well as the building in which they are de- 

 posited, were procured for Yale College. The artist 

 himself was an inmate of his family during several 

 of the closing years of his life. It was at Mr. Sil- 

 liman's request that he composed the volume of 

 " Reminiscences of his own Times." Respecting him, 

 and the productions of his pencil, Mr. Silliman has 

 left a small manuscript volume of interesting anec- 

 dotes, from which the remainder of this chapter is 

 extracted.* 



The Trumbull Gallery, and the Artist its Founder. Col. 

 Trumbull was already a man in full life, twenty-three years 



* The papers of Colonel Trumbull scarcely contain materials enough to 

 warrant a separate publication. Yet curious and valuable letters are found 

 among them. Some of these letters from John Adams, Jefferson, 

 Lafayette, Benjamin West, and Lord Grenville are printed in the Ap- 

 pendix to this Memoir. 



