We have seen, be it in person or in a photograph, the famous painting depicting the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Populated by important men of the American Revolution, most prominently we see George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, the painting a visual representation of the American founding and most importantly, the American story.
We know the painting but do we know the painter? Do we know whose hand depicted this occasion that created a new country, free of the monarch’s oppression? It was John Trumbull and his story has been told by Richard Brookhiser in his new book, Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution.
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