four years, the embarrassment of commerce affected his profession so deeply, that he determined to seek employment abroad. He accordingly went to London, where he painted a number of pictures, with the hope of attracting some attention, but so unpopular was everything American, that he failed completely. At the close of the war, he returned for the last time to New York, and in 1816 he was engaged by the government to paint the four large pictures now in the rotunda of the capitol at Washington, on which he was occupied seven years: after which he was principally employed in finishing his former sketches, and in painting copies of his national pictures, on a uniform scale of six feet by nine. Finding the government not likely to order the complete series, nor any individual desirous to possess them, he presented the entire set of the original paintings to Yale College, and a building has been erected by "the President and Fellows" of that institution for their preserva tion. He was first chosen President of the American Academy of the Arts, in 1817, and continued to be annually reëlected to that office. He died in the city of New York, November 10, 1843, in the eightyeighth year of his age. The high character of Colonel TRUMBULL claims more than we can here say of him. He was one of the last models of a by-gone generation, a fine example of the gentlemen of the old school. With much of dignity and courtesy in his manners, he was strictly honorable, rigidly abstemious, frank in his address, and proud of his profession. From early youth to his last days he blended himself with the history of his country. He drew for that country, by turns, the sword, the pen, and the pencil. The sword and the pen were wielded in company with others, but as a painter of American history, he stood almost alone, and even though many may rise who shall prove his equals, he must stand to all time as the first among them. 8 |