The years thereafter were active ones for Trumbull. He produced many portraits of celebrated men, and many historic paintings that still hold leading places in the national art of America.
In 1794 Trumbull acted as secretary to John Jay in London during the negotiations for the treaty between America and Great Britain. He was a man of prominence in public life, a leader in art in both England and America. He was president of the American Academy of Fine Arts from 1816 until 1825, and he died in New York, November 10, 1843.
PREPARED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION
ILLUSTRATION FOR THE MENTOR, VOL. 1. No. 45, SERIAL No. 45
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION
SPANISH GIRL, by Washington Allston—Metropolitan Museum, N. Y.
MAKERS OF AMERICAN ART
Washington Allston
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The standard bearer of the group of young artists who studied under Benjamin West was Washington Allston. Although several years of Allston’s active life were spent in England, he was a native American, and was born in the Waccamaw region of South Carolina in 1779. Allston’s father married twice, and the painter was the son of the second wife. His father died when Allston was only two years old, and when he was seven his mother married Dr. Henry C. Flagg of Newport, who was chief of the medical staff of General Greene’s army.