The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776
The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776 is the title of an oil painting by the American artist John Trumbull depicting the capture of the Hessian soldiers at the Battle of Trenton on the morning of Thursday, December 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. The focus is on General George Washington aiding the mortally wounded Hessian Colonel Johann Gottlieb Rall. Nearly 900 Hessians were captured at the battle. It is one of Trumbull's series of historical paintings on the war, which also includes the Declaration of Independence and The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777. The painting is on view at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut.
The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776
Study for painting, 1787–88
Nathanael Greene, by John Trumbull, 1792
Washington inspecting the captured colors after the Battle of Trenton, by Edward Percy Moran, c. 1914
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 Revolution". Trumbull's Declaration of Independence (1817), one of his four paintings that hang in the United States Capitol rotunda, is used on the reverse of the current United States two-dollar bill.
Self-portrait, c. 1802
John Trumbull, painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1818
General George Washington at Trenton, a 1792 portrait by Trumbull now housed at Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut
Trumbull, painted by James Frothingham