John Faucheraud Grimké (1752–1819)

Artist: John Trumbull (American, 1756–1843)

1791

American Paintings and Sculpture

On view, 2nd floor, American Art before 1900


John Faucheraud Grimké was born in South Carolina to French and German parents. He rose to the rank of deputy adjutant general for South Carolina and Georgia and was taken prisoner by the British at the surrender of Charleston in 1780. After the war, Grimké resumed life as a planter and became a noted jurist, serving as a judge on the South Carolina Superior Court and later as its senior associate. This miniature, painted by John Trumbull in Charleston, may have been intended as a study for the unexecuted painting The Siege of Savannah.

Medium

Oil on wood

Dimensions

3 5/8 × 3 in. (9.2 × 7.6 cm)

Credit Line

Trumbull Collection

Accession Number

1832.54

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), 102, no. 44, ill.
  • Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 18, fig. 15
  • Helen A. Cooper et al., John Trumbull: The Hand and Spirit of a Painter (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982), 141, pl. 81-85
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Signed verso: "Colo. Grimke-of/the American Artillery/at the seige of Savannah/Painted in Charleston/So. Carolina 1791/by J. Trumbull."

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