John Trumbull - Hartford, CT
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An architectural sculpture honoring poet John Trumbull is one of six medallions honoring Connecticut's outstanding intellectuals on the second level of the east façade of the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford.
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Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 01/31/2016
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A 6' diameter marble relief sculpture featuring the head and upper chest of poet John Trumbull was created by Charles Henry Niehaus and installed on the east façade of the State Capitol building around 1895. The fifth from the left of six, roundel, sculptures depicts John Trumbull wearing a jacket ruffled shirt, in bas relief, and his head in high relief inside a recessed circle. The inscription JOHN TRUMBULL frames his head.
John Trumbull was born in Watertown, CT on April 24, 1750. He graduated from Yale College in 1767 and continued is studies in law at Yale from 1771 to 1773. While at Yale he wrote ten essays, called "The Meddler", imitating The Spectator, to the Boston Chronicle, and essays, signed " The Correspondent" to the Connecticut Journal and New Haven Post Boy. His satire in verse, The Progress of Dulness (1772–1773), was an attack on educational methods of his time.
During the Revolutionary War he wrote the political satire M'Fingal (1775). After the war he became a member of a group of writers, along with David Humphreys, Joel Barlow and Lemuel Hopkins, known as the "Hartford Wits." A staunch Federalist, he along with the other "Hartford Wits" wrote the satirical poem The Anarchiad: A New England Poem, in favor of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. John
Trumbull was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1791.