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The making of the Fourth
From Peter de Bolla's timely new book, The Fourth of July and the Founding of America:
The painting itself has three versions and it has been reproduced at various times on postage stamps, currency and china.... Trumbull, as the evidence of his correspondence and sketches demonstrates, went to extreme pains to produce a documentary image. He travelled across the states tracking down those people who had been present on 4 July 1776 in that room in Philadelphia in order accurately to portray their faces in his painting. Of course, his subjects had advanced in years by the time Trumbull came with pencil, pen or brush in hand - he did not begin his studies for the painting in Paris until 1785 and it was not completed until 1818. No wonder so many of them look so august.
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