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Jones,<em> Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, </em>(Princeton,&nbsp;NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 266","date":1986,"id":1899,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/14244748"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[],"department":"American Art","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199325,"term":"North American Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"A.D. 1800-1850","dateend":1806,"depicted":[{"id":19438,"displayname":"Brigadier General Ebenezer Huntington","displaydate":"American, 1754–1834","datebegin":1754,"dateend":1834,"prefix":"Person depicted:","suffix":null,"role":"Depicted","displaymaker":"Person depicted: Brigadier General Ebenezer Huntington, American, 1754–1834","displayorder":2}],"titles":[{"title":"Brigadier General Ebenezer Huntington","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":null,"objectnumber":"y1976-10","inscribed":null,"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"John Trumbull is best known for his historical paintings of significant events in the American Revolution. In 1785, shortly after the war’s conclusion, he began to “meditate seriously the subjects of national history,” a process suggested by his teacher, Benjamin West, and encouraged by Thomas Jefferson, who urged Trumbull to expand the scope of his envisioned series to include important nonmilitary events. Replicas of four of the resulting paintings were eventually installed in grand scale in the Rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., providing the capstone of Trumbull’s long career. In the period between their installation in Washington in 1826 and the artist’s completion of the initial, easel-size versions, Trumbull gathered likenesses of many of the individuals depicted. This bust-length portrait of Ebenezer Huntington (1754–1834) was likely produced in such a context, as Huntington is included among the ranks of mounted offi cers in Trumbull’s Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, depicting the culmination of the war’s last major campaign. The portrait is a compelling image in its own right, with the distant gaze and slight upward tilt of the sitter’s head seeming to suggest an optimistic focus on the future.","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Possibly Sarah A. Huntington (d. 1907), widow of Edward Boylston Huntington (1806-1875), Norwich (CT), through family ties with both the painter and the sitter [1]. Acquired by Roger Wolcott (1877-1965), Milton (MA), by 1950, probably through family ties [2]; by inheritance to his nephew, Samuel Huntington Wolcott (1910-2000), Boston (MA) [3]. [James Graham and Sons, New York (NY), ca. 1967 [4]]. [Hirschl and Adler, New York (NY), American Paintings from Public and Private Collections, December 1967-January 1968, no. 21]; purchased by Max Adler at the above sale; donated to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1976.\n\n[1] John F. Weir, “John Trumbull: A Brief Sketch of His Life”, New York 190","remarks":null}],"datebegin":1806,"sortnumber":"1976   10y","published_date":"2026-02-11 10:28:28.742854","objectid":32236,"dimensions":"63.5 × 52.6 cm (25 × 20 11/16 in.)\r\nframe: 81.6 × 71.5 × 8.6 cm (32 1/8 × 28 1/8 × 3 3/8 in.)","on_view":true}