John Trumbull, 1786 - The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 - fine art print

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Greatly impressed with John Trumbull’s plans to execute a series of American history paintings, Thomas Jefferson invited the artist to stay with him in Paris. There, Trumbull wrote, “I began the composition of the Declaration of Independence, with the assistance of [Jefferson’s] information and advice.” Trumbull represents the moment when the committee appointed to draw up the document submitted Jefferson’s draft for the consideration of the Continental Congress. Conscious of creating an image for succeeding generations, Trumbull made the whole committee—John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin—present the document to John Hancock, rather than Jefferson alone, which would have been historically accurate. He consulted Adams and Jefferson about who should actually be in the scene. They urged that all the delegates be included, even those who were not present or those who had opposed the Declaration and did not sign. The goal was to preserve the exact likenesses of those extraordinary individuals—aristocrats, lawyers, doctors, farmers, shopkeepers—who had put their lives and fortunes on the line. Trumbull worked on the Declaration for more than three decades, hoping to include all fifty-six figures, but he was unable to obtain all the likenesses. Of the forty-eight portraits here, thirty-six were taken from life; others were copied from an existing portrait or taken of a son as a substitute.

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The more than 230 year old artpiece with the title "The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776" was created by John Trumbull in the year 1786. The more than 230 years old original version has the following size: 20 7/8 x 31 in (53 x 78,7 cm) and was produced with the medium oil on canvas. The piece of art is included in the digital collection of Yale University Art Gallery, which belongs to Yale University and is the oldest art museum of a university in the western hemisphere. With courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery (license: public domain). : Trumbull Collection. Besides this, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with an image ratio of 3 : 2, meaning that the length is 50% longer than the width. The artist, painter John Trumbull was an artist from United States, whose art style can be classified as Romanticism. The North American artist lived for a total of 87 years and was born in the year 1756 in Lebanon, New London county, Connecticut, United States and deceased in the year 1843.

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