Philip John Schuyler (1733–1804)

Artist: John Trumbull (American, 1756–1843)

1792

American Paintings and Sculpture

On view, 2nd floor, American Art before 1900


Philip John Schuyler first served as a captain and then major in the French and Indian War. In the Continental army, he was chosen as one of four major generals. John Trumbull, who first met Schuyler in Albany while traveling to Ticonderoga, New York, with General Horatio Gates in 1776, painted this miniature in Philadelphia as a study for his painting The Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga (1832.7).

Medium

Oil on wood

Dimensions

3 3/4 × 3 1/8 in. (9.5 × 7.9 cm)

Credit Line

Trumbull Collection

Accession Number

1832.64

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Miniatures

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Bibliography
  • Helen A. Cooper et al., Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008), 104, no. 46, ill.
  • Helen A. Cooper et al., John Trumbull: The Hand and Spirit of a Painter (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982), 136, pl. 71-75
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Signed verso: "Philip Schuyler Esqr./Majr. Genl. In the Ameri/can service:--sometime/commanding in the No./department. & present/at the capture of Genl. Burgoyne./Painted by J. Trumbull at Phila. 1792."

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