Trumbull, Jonathan, Mrs. (Faith Robinson) Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Wadsworth Atheneum 600 Main Street Hartford Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1950.835
Date:
Ca. 1774-1775
Notes:
Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.
Sizer, Theodore, "The works of Colonel John Trumbull, artist of the American Revolution," Rev. ed., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967.
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 729.
Summary:
Double portrait of the artist's father and mother, Jonathan Trumbull (1710-1785) and Faith Robinson Trumbull (1718-1780). The two portraits are in decorative oval spaces embellished with ornamental scrolls and at the bottom, two tiny allegorical figures flanking a cupid.
