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The Surrender of General Burgoyne is an oil painting by the American artist John Trumbull. The painting was completed in 1821 and hangs in the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C. The painting depicts the surrender of British Lieutenant General John Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York on October 17, 1777, ten days after the Second ...
Surrender of General Burgoyne, an 1822 portrait by John Trumbull depicting John Burgoyne, a British Army general, surrendering to General Horatio Gates, who refused to take his sword. The painting presently hangs in the United States Capitol Rotunda.
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Surrender of General Burgoyne — Is the lighting on the rump of the horse bright, or is this how the painting is painted? In addition, the tilt seems off; look at the framing on the bottom and the left side. Surrender of Lord Cornwallis — I really don't see any problems with this, just regular, expected wear and tear. However, is the shading ...
A detachment of Morgan's regiment, commanded by Morgan, was reassigned to the army's Northern Department and on Aug 30 he joined General Horatio Gates to aid in resisting Burgoyne's offensive. He is prominently depicted in the painting of the Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga by John Trumbull. [19]
This picture is an engraved vignette of the American artist John Trumbull's 1821 oil-on-canvas painting Surrender of General Burgoyne, depicting the surrender of British troops under John Burgoyne on October 17, 1777, at the end of the Saratoga campaign of the American Revolutionary War.
Gates stands front and center in John Trumbull's painting of the Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga, [10] [11] which hangs in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. By Congressional resolution, a gold medal was presented to Gates to commemorate his victories over the British in the Battles of Bennington, Fort Stanwix and Saratoga.
Surrender of General Burgoyne, oil painting, by John Trumbull, 1821, United States Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C. The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776, oil painting, by John Trumbull, 1828, Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut; General John Glover, oil on canvas, by Henry Sutton, 1964, Abbot Hall ...