John Trumbull
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John Trumbull was an American painter and military officer best known for his historical paintings of the American Revolutionary War, of which he was a veteran. He has been called the "Painter of the
Self-Portrait, c. 1802
John Trumbull, painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1818
Sketches of Creek leaders, Hysac, or The Woman's Man, and Hopothle Mico, or, The Talassee King of the Creeks, made by John Trumbull in 1790 during negotiations for the Treaty of New York (Yale Beinecke J18 T771 841)
Trumbull, painted by James Frothingham
Alexander Hamilton
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Alexander Hamilton was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 under the presidency of George Washington.
John Trumbull
…hangs Trumbull's portrait of Mayor Richard Varick, who commissioned the 1790 portrait of Washington. New York also bought his full-length paintings of Alexander Hamilton (1805, the source of the face on the $10 bill) and John Jay. Trumbull was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1791 and…
Posthumous portrait by John Trumbull, 1806, from a life bust by Giuseppe Ceracchi, 1794
Alexander Hamilton in the Uniform of the New York Artillery, a portrait by Alonzo Chappel
Portrait of Hamilton authoring the first draft of the U.S. Constitution in 1787
A statue of Hamilton on the south patio of the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C.