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And the place to fi about new things is right 1 this newspaper. Its colun tilled with important mi which you should read ref *M. _ . — — - His Painting of a Battle in the American Revolution Became the Passport That Took Him Out of Danger in the French Revolution By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) O N THE afternoon of June 17, 1775, a young school teacher who had enlisted in the Patriot army at the outbreak of the Revo lution and become adjutant of a Connecticut regiment stationed at Roxbury, stood on a hill there and gazed up on a battle scene which he was to help make immortal. He saw 3,000 British redcoats march up Breed’s Hill. . . . battalions in an extended front of men three deep, with volley firing by platoons in regular sequence. He saw the 1,200 New England’s mili tia, crouching behind their hastily - erected fortifications on the hill, holding their fire “until you can see the whites of their eyes.” He saw the long lines of scarlet- clad men crumble under the murderous hail of lead, reel back down the hill, then reform and, with bulldog courage, advance once more. He saw them beaten back again but once more they came on—this time with bayo nets. And because the supply of ammunition of the defenders of the hill was exhausted, this time the attackers were successful. But their victory was dearly won —they had lost 1,054 men killed and wounded, among them 89 commissioned officers, as com pared to the Patriot’s loss of 420 killed and wounded and 30 pris oners. Praised by Copley. Years later this young school teacher was to paint that memo rable scene and, by a strange quirk of fate, this very painting was to save his life during a revo lutionary struggle in another land. For this young Connecti cut Yankee was John Trumbull, who as a student at Harvard had won the praise of the distin guished artist, John Singleton Copley, for his skill at painting. That skill was soon put to good use. When George Washington arrived at Cambridge to take command of the newly formed Continental army Trumbull learned that he wished an accu rate drawing of the enemy’s posi tion. So at the risk of his life he crept close to British lines and made sketches which pleased Washington so much that he ap- pointed Trumbull his second aide- de-camp. The young artist next attracted the attention of General Gates and, when Gates went to Ticon- deroga to assume command of the Northern department, Trum bull went along as his adjutant- general with the rank of colonel. In 1778 he accompanied General Sullivan as a volunteer on his ex pedition against the British in Rhode Island. When it proved unsuccessful, Trumbull returned to Boston, resolved to give up his career, as a soldier perma nently and devote his life to painting. In May, 1780, he sailed for Paris where he called on Ben jamin Franklin and told him of his desire to study under the great Benjamin West in London. Armed with a letter of introduc tion he went to London and West put him to work. When Major Andre, the British adjutant-general in America, was caught and hanged, the young painter who had been an Amer ican adjutant-general, seemed to the British to be the logical man to be used for reprisal. Trumbull might well have pleaded that there was little similarity be tween his case and Andre’s, that he was in London only as a paint er and that he was there by per mission of Lord Germain, the British foreign minister. In stead, the truculent young Yankee boasted that he had been aide to that “arch rebel,” George Wash ington, and that he was proud of it. In an English Prison. Confined in Tuthill Bridewell, Trumbull may have had some un easy moments as to what his fate would be. But if he did have them, he gave no sign and calmly went on with his painting. Mean while, his Tory friends. West and Copley, were working in his in terests and after seven months succeeded in gaining his release. Trumbull returned to America immediately but when hostilities ended he went back to London again to work under West. With the spell of his country’s victory still fresh upon him he conceived the idea of commemo rating the principal events of the Revolution in a series of large paintings. His first was the pic ture of one he had seen, even though it was from a distance— the Battle of Bunker Hill. The great Sir Joshua Reynolds, visit ing West’s studio, saw this pic ture «md, believing it to be West’s work, praised him for it—a high THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL (From the painting by John Trumbull in the Yale Art Gallery.) compliment to the young Ameri can. Thomas Jefferson, American minister to France, also saw the painting when he visited London and immediately recognized the genius of his compatriot. He in vited Trumbull to come to Paris as his guest and introduced him to some of the leading French painters apd sculptors. For some time Trumbull had been planning to paint the most important scene in the history of the Revolution—the Signing of the Declaration of Independence. There in the home of its author, and aided by that author’s sug gestions, he made the first sketches of the picture. Return ing to London Trumbull arranged the composition so that he could add the portraits of the signers as the opportunity offered. John Adams was just leaving his post as ambassador to the Court of St. JOHN TRUMBULL James and his was the first por trait painted in. A few months later the painter went back to Paris and added Jefferson’s. Then the French Revolution put an end to Trumbull’s work in Paris. In October, 1789, both he and Jefferson returned to Amer ica. Arriving in New York Trum bull found that the Constitution had been adopted and Washing ton elected President. Here the portraits of Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lewis, George Clinton, Lewis Morris and Roger Sher man were soon added to his can vas. More Portraits Added. The next spring the artist went to Philadelphia where he spent three months adding more por traits. During the fall of 1790 Trumbull was in Boston and New Hampshire, painting the portraits of John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Josiah Bart lett and on subsequent visits to Charleston, S. C., Philadelphia, New York and Boston added others. The end of Trumbull’s great project was almost in sight when political troubles at home and war abroad turned his interest and the interest of his friends from the arts to these more press ing problems. In 1794 Trumbull was appointed secretary to John Jay and accompanied him to England to aid in the negotiations which resulted in the famous Jay’s Treaty. For the next decade he was not a painter but an American agent in Europe, part of the time as a commis sioner carrying out the stipula tions of that treaty. At this point his painting of the Battle of Bunker Hill comes back into the story in one of the most dramatic incidents in the life of any artist. In 1797 Trumbull was in Paris on his way back from Stuttgart, Germany, where a cer tain Herr Muller had made an erfjraving of his Bunker Hill pic ture. Robespierre was in power and the Reign of Terror had started. Suddenly the American painter found himself on the “suspect list” (possibly because of his part in negotiating the Jay treaty which was very unpopular in France) and not allowed to leave the country. Trumbull appealed to Talleyrand, the French foreign minister, who was affable enough but said he could do nothing for him, adding that the Americans must pay money for any favors as a nation that they got from the French. Appeals to Pinckney. Nor could Charles C. Pinckney of South Carolina, American minister to France, (who was later to be credited with the im mortal “Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute!” in re ply to another French blackmail ing demand) do anything for him. In fact, he told Trumbull that both of them were as likely as not to find themselves in the Tem ple prison—and on the way to the guillotine! Then Trumbull decided to go to see Louis David, his old friend and fellow-painter. David was now a subordinate of Robes pierre and, although Trumbull re garded him as much a murderer as Robespierre, he regarded David’s intercession as his only hope. He found the French paint er at the Louvre and was greeted warmly. When David learned that Trumbull had his Bunker Hill painting with him he ex claimed: “That picture is worth many passports!” So he urged Trumbull to hurry to his hotel and get the painting (which was small enough for him to carry under his arm) and then come with him to the police pre fecture. As they entered, every one stood aside respectfully for the “great Republican painter, David,” and gazed curiously at his companion, the “notorious suspect.” Showing the picture to the chief of police, David stated that the American with him had been in this battle against the hated English and ended his vol uble explanation with the declara tion: “He is as good a Revolu tionist as any of us!” ‘His Blood Run Cold.’ Although Trumbull later said that it made his blood run cold to hear himself described as the same type of Revolutionist as his friend (who had told him that it would have been better for the Republic if 5,000 more aristocrats had been guillotined), he was greatly relieved when informed that he would be given a passport out of France. He set out imme diately for Calais so as to be safely aboard a ship for England before the police could change their minds and have him arrest ed. He arrived there safely and never again returned to France. Trumbull was in England dur ing the War of 1812 and then re turned to America to finish his painting of “The Signing of the Declaration of Independence” and three others—“The Surren der of General Burgoyne,” “The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis,” and “Washington Resigning His Commission.” His last years were saddened by illness and poverty. Finally in 1831, he ar ranged with Yale college to give that institution his unsold paint ings for an annuity of $1,000 for the remainder of his life, which ended on November 10, 1843. That is why the Yale art gal lery is today one of America’s greatest patriotic shrines. For on its walls hang several of John Trumbull’s paintings, among them, “The Battle of Bunker Hill” which once served as a “passport” out of Revolutionary France. Fifty years after Bunker Hill, the corner stone of the monument which marks the site of the battle was laid. Lafayette was present. But the outstanding figure there was Daniel Webster, then rising to his heights as public speaker, who was chosen to give the ded icatory address, which has be come one of the classics of American oratory. From an eye witness, Samuel Griswold Good rich, we have this description of that historic event and the “man of the hour”: The first time I ever saw Mr. Webster was on the seventeenth of June, 1825, at the laying of the corner stone of the Bunker Hill monument. I shall never forget his appearance as he strode across the open area, encircled by some fifty thousand persons— men and women—waiting for the “Orator of the Day,” nor the shout that simultaneously burst forth, as he was recognized, car rying up to the skies the name of “Webster!” “Webster!” “Web ster!” It was one of those lovely days in June, when the sun is bright, the air clear, and the breath of nature so sweet and pure as to fill every bosom with a grateful joy in the mere consciousness of existence. There were present long files of soldiers in their holi day attire; there were many as sociations, with their mottoed banners; there were lodges and grand lodges, in white aprons and blue scarfs; there were miles of citizens from the town and the country round about; there were 200 gray-haired men, remnants of the days of the Revolution; there was among them a stranger, of great mildness and dignity of ap pearance, on whom all eyes rest ed, and when his name was known the air echoed with the cry—“Welcome, welcome, Lafay ette!” Around all this scene was a rainbow of beauty such as New England alone can furnish. I have seen many public festivi ties and ceremonials, but never one, taken all together, of more general interest than this. Web ster was in the very zenith of his fame and powers. There was grandeur in his form, an in telligence in his deep dark eye, a loftiness in his expansive brow, a significance in his arched lip, altogether beyond those of any other human being I ever saw. 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