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Reverend Benjamin Trumbull
Image Not Available for Reverend Benjamin Trumbull

Reverend Benjamin Trumbull

Dateabout 1857
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 33 × 28in. (83.8 × 71.1cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
DescriptionPortrait of Reverend Benjamin Trumbull as an older man with thin white hair, a long nose, and a downturned mouth. He is wearing a black robe and white bands. The background is dark.
Object number1857.23.0
NotesSubject note: Painted after a portrait by George Munger. Trumbull wrote about this portrait, "His [Benjamin Trumbull's] portrait, painted by George Munger in 1818, and preserved in the family, was engraved for the edition of his History of Connecticut published that year" (A Complete History of Connecticut, p. 623).
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