Post Revolutionary Painting & National Identity (Week 4)

Question 1

Answer 1

Charles Willson Peale, Benjamin West, 1767

painted while in his studio

Question 2

Answer 2

Charles Willson Peale, Washington as Colonel in the Virginia Regiment, 1772

military portraiture

makes a living painting Washington

Question 3

Answer 3

Charles Willson Peale, George Washington, 1776

Question 4

Answer 4

Charles Willson Peale, Washington at the Battle of Princeton, 1784

historical portraiture

sneak attack, turning point in war

awkward proportions

Washington valiant, brave

Question 5

Answer 5

Charles Willson Peale, George Washington, 1787

Question 6

Answer 6

Charles Willson Peale, Washington After the Battle of Princeton, Jan. 3, 1777, 1789-92

Question 7

Answer 7

Jean Antoine Houdon, George Washington, 1788 - 1792

Rotunda statue

what Washington means to Americans

powerful leading

peaceful transfer of military power to gentleman farmer

Question 8

Answer 8

Charles Willson Peale, William Smith and his Grandson, 1788

commissioned by friends for his retirement

Question 9

Answer 9

Charles Willson Peale, The Artist’s Mother, Mrs. Charles Peale and her Grandchildren, 1783

Question 10

Answer 10

Charles Willson Peale, The Peale Family, 1771-73

relates to Smibert’s Bermuda Group

instructing

traditional

Question 11

Answer 11

Charles Willson Peale, The Staircase Group, 1795

trompe l’oeil

Peale’s sons, Titian and Raphaelle

Question 12

Answer 12

Charles Willson Peale, Exhumation of the Mastadon, 1805-08

fascination with natural history, science

discovery, excavation

bones displayed in his museum

painted people who weren’t there - false depiction

Question 13

Answer 13

Charles Willson Peale, The Artist in the Museum, 1822

painting, collecting, preserving, exhibiting, education

showing off life’s work

museum incorporated

Question 14

Answer 14

John Trumbull, Self Portrait, 1777

Revolutionary war series

poised, artist, eye contact

followed steps of Copley

Question 15

Answer 15

John Trumbull, George Washington, 1780

wanted to paint history paintings

Question 16

Answer 16

John Trumbull, Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, 1786

first painting of the war series

influenced by West’s Death of General Wolfe

theme - gnerosity of humanity

scarce demand for history paintings in America

Question 17

Answer 17

John Trumbull, Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, 1786

baroque drama, action, emotion

false narrative - Trumbull wasn’t there

Question 18

Answer 18

John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

began 1786, 3 decades to finish

memorialized with individual portrait likeness

inaccurate narrative - 42 of original 56

Question 19

Answer 19

John Trumbull, The Capture of the Hessiens at Trenton, Dec. 26, 1776, 1786

ceremonial

semi-circle composition

Question 20

Answer 20

John Trumbull, Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, 1781

Question 21

Answer 21

John Trumbull, Washington Before the Battle of Trenton, 1793

Washington = might, tall, brave

choas except for Washington

vibrant color, texture

Question 22

Charles Willson Peale

Answer 22

(1741 - 1827)

started painting in 1760s

studied with Benjamin West 1767 - 1769

served in the militia during Revolutionary War

Peale’s Museum, Independence Hall 1802

Question 23

John Trumbull

Answer 23

Born 1756

travels to England in 1780 and stays for 24 years until 1804

first one to really push for history paintings in America

subscription plan fails

Revolutionary war history paintings