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Paul Revere (/ r ɪ ˈ v ɪər /; December 21, 1734 O.S. (January 1, 1735 N.S.) [N 1] – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith, military officer and industrialist who played a major role during the opening months of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts, engaging in a midnight ride in 1775 to alert nearby minutemen of the approach of British troops prior to the battles of ...
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It depicts the American patriot Paul Revere during his midnight ride on April 18, 1775. The perspective is from a high altitude as Revere rides through a brightly lit Lexington, Massachusetts. It was inspired by the 1860 poem "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [1] Wood used a child's hobby horse as model for Revere's horse. [2]
20th-century depiction of Revere's ride. Paul Revere's midnight ride was an alert given to minutemen in the Province of Massachusetts Bay by local Patriots on the night of April 18, 1775, warning them of the approach of British Army troops prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord.
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1931) by Grant Wood, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY. American Regionalism is an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting realistic scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest.
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English: PAUL REVERE From the crayon portrait made by Fevret de Saint-Mémin in 1804, reproduced in Early American Craftsmen by Walter A. Dyer (The Century Company, New York, 1915) Date lithograph, c. 1915, after original drawing made in 1804
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