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Trumbull labored on the composition, over many sketches and three large completed canvases. As the project progressed, Trumbull's ambitions for it to be his big breakthrough to major patronage grew too. He refused large offers for the picture, preferring to exhibit it privately for admission fees.
234:...and as I knew by painting them , I had given offense to some extra-patriotic people in England, I now resolved to exert my utmost talent upon the Gibraltar, to show that noble and generous actions, by whomsoever performed, were the objects to whose celebration I meant to devote myself.
225:...the Heroism of the vanquished, the Humanity of the Victors - the darkness of night illuminating an extensive conflagration - the Hurry and Tumult of the troops busy in the work of destruction - the quiet & calm of the Officers, the guiding Spirits of the Scene.
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is the focal point of the painting. He fell mortally wounded and died near his post, refusing assistance after having been abandoned by his troops. He is portrayed as rejecting the aid of
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is being given respect as he lies dying. Although left behind by his own retreating troops, he still unsuccessfully attacked the
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who had been in the besieged garrison, told him of an earlier incident, which had occurred in
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the finest picture had ever seen painted on the northern side of the Alps.
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The Death of
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Courcelle, René Chartrand. Illustrated by Patrice (2006).
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