American War of Independence Oil Painting the Death General Warren Bunker Hill

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1 Large Historic American War Of Independence Military Oil Painting The Death Of General Warren Battle Bunker Hill 1775 After … more 1 Large Historic American War Of Independence Military Oil Painting The Death Of General Warren Battle Bunker Hill 1775 After John Trumbull.
Title “The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17 after John Trumbull 1775”.
Subject depicting theDepicting the death of Founding Father Joseph Warren at the June 17, 1775, Battle of Bunker Hill, during the American Revolutionary War. Warren, an influential Massachusetts physician and politician, had been commissioned as a general but served in the battle as a private. He was killed during or shortly after the storming of the redoubt atop Breed's Hill by a British officer. This is an iconic image of the American Revolution.
In the style of after John Trumbull.
Signed in the bottom corner area by the British artist Robert Lawson.
Circa late 20th century dated 1996.
Medium oil on canvas
Frame is an impressive size being 88.5 cm wide and 73.5 cm high.
Having beautiful highly detailed perspective.
Set in a gilt distressed frame.
The central focus of the painting is Warren's body, dressed in white, and John Small, a British major, dressed in a scarlet uniform (holding a sword in his left hand). Small, who had served with colonial general Israel Putnam during the French and Indian War, is shown preventing a fellow British soldier from bayoneting Warren. Trumbull wanted to express the poignancy in the conflict of men who had earlier served together. On the far right of the painting is a colonial officer, Thomas Grosvenor, with a black man holding a musket behind him.
The black man was long thought to be Peter Salem, a freed slave who served in the cause of American independence. Later research identified him as a slave belonging to Grosvenor. The foreground is littered with bodies from both sides of the conflict, and the background includes clusters of colonial and British troops carrying flags. Boston Harbour is also visible in the distance. The sky is partially obscured by smoke rising from Charlestown, which had been torched by the British. In describing the painting for a catalogue of his works, Trumbull explained why he chose to emphasize the British Major Small's role, saying that Small, whom he had met in London, "was equally distinguished by acts of humanity and kindness to his enemies, as by bravery and fidelity to the cause he served.
John Trumbull (1756–1843) was in the colonial army camp at Roxbury, Massachusetts on June 17, 1775, the day of the Battle of Bunker Hill. He watched the battle unfold through field glasses, and later decided to depict one of its central events. Joseph Warren, a Massachusetts politician and member of the colony's Committee of Safety, volunteered to serve under Colonel William Prescott in the defense of the redoubt which the colonists had constructed on top of Breed's Hill. This redoubt was the target of three British attacks, of which the first two were repulsed. The third attack succeeded, in part because the defenders had run out of ammunition. Warren was struck by a musket or pistol ball during the evacuation of the redoubt, and killed instantly.
British soldiers Major John Small, the redcoated British soldier stepping over a fallen redcoat soldier to hold back the bayonet of a fellow soldier. Major John Pitcairn, falling back dying in his son's (Lieutenant Pitcairn's) arms. General Henry Clinton, bare-headed British officer with raised sword at the rear, center of the painting. General William Howe, standing to the left of Clinton from the viewer's point of view with his sword pointing forward. Lord Rawdon, then a lieutenant, holds the British colour, center-right in the painting. Lieutenant Colonel James Abercrombie, the redcoat soldier laying dead underneath John Small and at General Warren's feet.
Colonists Joseph Warren, Founding Father, Thomas Grosvenor, soldier to the far right, Major Andrew McClary, General Israel Putnam, colonial officer on the far left of the painting,Thomas Knowlton, standing over Warren and holding a musket, Lieutenant-Colonel Moses Parker of Chelmsford is depicted sitting wounded to the left of Warren, Colonel Thomas Gardner lying on ground lower right. Both Gardner and Parker were taken prisoner, and both died in early July in Boston. Colonel William Prescott, who allegedly ordered his soldiers not to fire until "you see the whites of their eyes".
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Dimensions in centimetres of the frame

High (73.5cm)
Width (88.5 cm)
Length depth thickness of frame (5 cm) less