John Trumbull, 1780 - George Washington - fine art print

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In this portrait, George Washington (1732–1799) is shown standing on a bluff above the Hudson River with his enslaved personal servant, Billy Lee, on horseback behind him. The view across the river encompasses West Point, New York, with a red-and-white banner, possibly the Navy ensign adopted in 1775, flying atop the fortress. Trumbull had served on Washington’s staff as an aide-de-camp early in the Revolutionary War. He painted this portrait from memory about five years later, when he was studying in London. It was the first authoritative representation of Washington available in Europe and was soon copied throughout the Continent.

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The 18th century piece of art George Washington was created by the romanticist master John Trumbull in 1780. The version of the painting was made with the following size: 36 x 28 in (91,4 x 71,1 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the painter as the medium of the masterpiece. Moveover, the work of art forms part of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's art collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924 (public domain). Creditline of the artwork: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924. What is more, the alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait and has a side ratio of 3 : 4, meaning that the length is 25% shorter than the width. The artist, painter John Trumbull was a North American artist, whose style was mainly Romanticism. The American painter lived for 87 years and was born in 1756 in Lebanon, New London county, Connecticut, United States and passed away in 1843.

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