Conservative journalist Richard Brookhiser, author of, inter alia, well-wrought biographies of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Gouverneur Morris and a perceptive account of “America’s First Dynasty,” the Adamses of Massachusetts, has now taken on a different kind of subject: the life of Revolutionary America’s most famous painter, John Trumbull. Though not the first book on its subject, the first book with more or less its title, or the first book with the same image on its dustjacket, Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution does what we are now accustomed to having Brookhiser’s books do: it offers us a learned account of its subject full of strikingly insightful observations about, and penetrating evaluations of, one thoughtful patriot by another.
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