Collection Highlights
Donner Lake From the Summit
1873
1909.16
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Paintings
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
Title
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
Date
After 1804
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
canvas: 30 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. ( 77.5 x 64.8 cm )
frame: 39 3/4 x 34 7/8 x 5 in. ( 101 x 88.6 x 12.7 cm )
Credit Line
Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan
Object Number
1867.305
Gallery Label
Trumbull spent the years 1794 to 1804 in England as a member of the Jay Treaty Commission. Upon his return to America he found portraits of Hamilton in great demand and, using his own 1792 bust-length portrait and the bust of Ceracchi as models, created this, his second type of Hamilton portrait. Theodore Sizer, Trumbull's biographer, has catalogued eight of this second type.
Bibliography
Sizer, Theodore, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull: Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, pp. 36-8.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, pp. 325-6.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
