Identifier: nationalcapitol00haze (find matches)
Title: The national Capitol; its architecture, art and history
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Hazelton, George Cochrane, 1868-1921
Subjects: United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher: New York (Press of J. J. Little & co)
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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whose influence in style is hereseen. Taking offense at the action of Congress regarding the date of his com-mission, the young soldier resigned from the army in 1777 and sailed forEurope to prosecute his more congenial studies. While in London, at thetime of the Major Andre affair, he was unfortunately arrested as an Americanspy, and imprisoned for seven months; but, principally through the inter-position of West, who was the painter in ordinary, the King, George III.,promised that, in any event, the artists head should be spared, and, finally,through the efforts of Fox, Burke and others, ordered his release upon con-dition that he leave England in thirty days. The terms were gladly accededto; West and Copley became his sureties; and Trumbull shortly again tookup his residence in his native land, where he devoted himself assiduously tothe painting of life portraits—among which were several of Washington—forproposed historical pictures. Upon the restoration of peace, Trumbull made
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