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Museum purchase, 1857.23.0, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, No known copyright
Reverend Benjamin Trumbull
Museum purchase, 1857.23.0, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, No known copyright

Reverend Benjamin Trumbull

Dateabout 1857
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 33 × 28in. (83.8 × 71.1cm)
ClassificationsPainting
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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