John Trumbull (1756 - 1843)

inscribed Geo. Gallagher New York/Jonathan Trumbull pinx^t/ A.D. 1826 on the reverse 

Dr. Joseph Gardner Hopkins, New York;
Private Collection, New Haven, Connecticut;
Steven Straw, Newburyport, Massachusetts;
Private Collection, Nashville, Tennessee, 1980;
Sotheby's, New York, American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, March 14, 2001, sale 7615, lot 45;
Alan Miller, Quakertown, Pennsylvania.

Theodore Sizer, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull, Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven, Connecticut, 1967, p. 26.

There is frame abrasion along all edges and scattered separation cracking throughout. There is a pentimento visible at the top left of the figure's cane in the lower left background. Under UV: there are thin lines of inpainting to cracking throughout. There is a 6-inch diagonal line of inpainting in the center left background, a 1-inch spot in the figure's forehead at hairline and inpainting to frame abrasion at edges.
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