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Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York by John Trumbull 1822 U.S. Capitol Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Trumbull, John | The scene of the surrender of the British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga, on October 17, 1777, was a turning point in the American Revolutionary War that prevented the British from dividing New England from the rest of the colonies. The central figure is the American General Horatio Gates, who refused to take the sword offered by General Burgoyne,... | |
Surrender Of Cornwallis At Yorktown (2) by John Trumbull 1797 U.S. Capitol Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Trumbull, John | ||
Samuel Osgood by Constantino Brumidi ca. 1860 U.S. Capitol Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Brumidi, Constantino | ||
Portrait Of Edmund Randolph by Constantino Brumidi ca. 1860 U.S. Capitol Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Brumidi, Constantino | ||
John C. Calhoun by Henry F. Darby ca. 1858 U.S. Capitol Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Darby, Henry F. | John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was a leading politician and political theorist from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. | |
Henry Knox by Constantino Brumidi ca. 1860 U.S. Capitol Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Brumidi, Constantino | ||
Henry Clay by Henry F. Darby ca. 1858 U.S. Capitol Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Darby, Henry F. | The portrait of Henry Clay is simply conceived: a three-quarter-length figure is seated in a wooden armchair. Darby has placed the chair at a slight angle to the picture plane, next to the corner of a covered table. On the table’s surface lie some sheets of paper and a quill pen. Darby has positioned Clay’s head to the right of center, and he has... | |
First Reading Of The Emancipation Proclamation Of President Lincoln by Francis B. Carpenter 1864 U.S. Capitol Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Carpenter, Francis B. | ||
Discovery Of The Mississippi By De Soto A.d. 1541 by William Henry Powell 1847 U.S. Capitol Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Powell, William Henry | Powell's dramatic and brilliantly colored canvas shows Spanish conqueror and explorer Hernando DeSoto, riding a white horse, the first European to view the Mississippi River, in 1541. As De Soto and his troops approach, the Native Americans in front of their tepees watch, and a chief holds out a peace pipe. In the foreground is a jumble of weapons... | |
Cornwallis Sues For Cessation Of Hostilities Under The Flag Of Truce by Constantino Brumidi 1857 U.S. Capitol Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Brumidi, Constantino |
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