CHAPTER XIX. 



COLONEL TRUMBULL AND HIS PAINTINGS. 



<>r Silliman's Acquaintance with Colonel Trumbull. His interview 

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

 ollege. Colonel Trumbull on his Portrait of Washington. 

 'Ha- Battle of Trenton. The Battle of Bunker Hill, and General 

 Warivn. 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- 

 limnn'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- 

 <>m which the remainder of this chapter is 

 extracted.* 



I'mmlniU Gallery, and the Artist its Founder. Col. 

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



>'l Triiinbiill scarcely contain materials enough to 



w * rra I'uMi, ation. Yet curious and valuable Idlers are found 



" Of theae letters from John Adams, Jefferson, 

 l^fry " West, and Lord Grenville are printed in the Ap- 



pendix to this Memoir. 



