Identifier: artartistsofourt06cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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that no notice would have been taken by the government of this fact, other thanperhaps to keep an official watch upon the doings of the new-comer, had it not been for theunfortunate affair of Major Andre, whose hanging as a spy had roused the deepest indigna-tion in England and made the people eager for retaliation. Trumbull had arrived in Londonin August, 1780. In October of the same year Andre was tried and executed, but the newsdid not reach England until November. Trumbull, who was then studying under West, hadthe misfortune to be a lodger in the same house with an American who had been an officerin the army, and against whom a warrant had been issued for high treason. As it wasthought that Trumbull might be implicated in this persons affairs, or might have papersabout him that would assist in his prosecution, orders were given to make his arrest at the. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 177 same time. He was taken before a magistrate, and as he tells us himself, he rebuked the court,
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PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, AS A COLONEL IN THE BRITISH SERVICE IN VIRGINIA. PAINTED IN 1772 BY CHARLES V/. PEALE. REPRODUCED BY PERMISSION, FROM THE STEEL ENGRAVING MADE FOR IRVINGS LIFE OF WASHINGTON PUBLISHED BY G, P. PUTNAMS SONS. and acknowledging both his parentage and the fact that he had been an aide-de-camp of Wash-ington, threatened retaliation in case he were ill-treated. Dunlap, who certainly had no love forVol. III.—12 in 178 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. Trumbull as a man, though he does liim ample justice as an artist, regards this reply ofTrumbull as mere bounce, and indeed it seems to have been unnecessary, seeing that the factshe confessed with such boldness Avere not only known already to the authorities, but weie, inpart, the very reasons for his arrest. The result of the examination was, that his confinementwas ordered during the kings pleasure; but no sooner had West heard of the affair than hehastened to the king and made a personal appeal on behalf of the

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