Eve Kornfeld, Creating an American Culture:  A Brief History with Documents (Boston:  Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001) 

Paintings and Images of the Founders and the Early National Era
 

1.  John Trumbull

   
The Death of General Warren
at the Battle of Bunker's Hill (1786)



The Declaration of Independence,
Philadelphia, 4 July 1776 (1787)


2.  Charles Wilson Peale


George Washington at the Battle of Princeton
(1788-1781)



The Artist in His Museum (1822)


3.  Gilbert Stuart


George Washington, The Lasndowne Portrait (1797)


George Washington (1795)


4.  John Vanderlyn


The Death of Jane McCrea (1804)


5. Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze


Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851)


Links:

►Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/gw/el_gw.htm (Leutze)

►American Revolution.org - Art of the Revolution
http://www.americanrevolution.org/delxone.html (discussion of Leutze)
http://www.americanrevolution.org/artmain.html (other images of era)

►American Revolution Art Gallery

http://www.americanrevolution.org/artmain.html

 

►The National Gallery of Art:  Gilbert Stuart Paints the First Five Presidents

http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg60aa/gg60aa-main1.html

 

►Gilbert Stuart:  The Landsdowne Portrait (interactive, on-line exhibit)

http://www.georgewashington.si.edu/portrait/

 

►The National Portrait Gallery:  Room 14 - Britain Becomes a World Power
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/room14.asp

 

►John Trumbull - Fordum University Biography

http://www.library.fordham.edu/Trumbull/foreword.html

 

►John Trumbull - Essay w/ Pictures on Paintings in Capitol Rotunda

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/DESOTO/trumbull.html

 

►Art History Images - Choate American Studies Program

http://crh.choate.edu/english/salot/Art%20History%20Page.htm