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 Gluebec, December, 1775 ; of 

 the Battle of Banker'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. v 



Col. Trumbull is the sole survivor of Gen. Washington's pri- 

 vate military family — of those gentlemen who, sharing his full 

 confidence, were about his person in the tent and in the battle 

 field. 



In relation to his historical pictures he enjoys the rare advan- 

 tage of a personal acquaintance with the individuals whose por- 

 traits he has preserved and of having participated in their dangers 

 and sufferings. 



The Trumbull Gallery has a claim to a 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 of 

 the art, at an early day, and exhibits a magnificent and imposing 

 spectacle. 



* Mr. West, although an American and the master and instructor of Trumbull, 

 confined his labors chiefly to England. 



