American Revolution
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Painting the Revolution September 16, 2024
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 t...
Painting From Life July 16, 2024
Although painters are often the subjects of monumental biographies, few merit them. Take the 880-page 2021 biography Francis Bacon: Revelations. Critics loved it. Yet, more swiftly than reading it, you could have flown to London to see many of the pa...
America’s Artist June 28, 2024
We have seen, be it in person or in a photograph, the famous painting depicting the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Populated by important men of the American Revolution, most prominently we see George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thoma...
Painting the Revolution June 03, 2024
In 1853, British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray toured the U.S. Capitol with Senator Charles Sumner. Thackeray, who illustrated his own novels with sketches, was impressed by the Rotunda and its four wall-size paintings of scenes of the America...
