The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775 [SEP] creator
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775 refers to several oil paintings completed in the late 18th and early 19th century by the American artist John Trumbull depicting the death of Joseph Warren at the June 17, 1775, Battle of Bunker Hill, during the American Revolutionary War. Warren, an influential Massachusetts physician and politician, had been commissioned as a general but he served in the battle
. It is the second in Trumbull's series of national historical paintings on the war, the first being "The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775".
History.
Trumbull went to London in 1784 to study painting with Benjamin West, historical painter to King George III. West, himself famous for such paintings as "The Death of General Wolfe", suggested that Trumbull paint great events of the American Revolution. The first was "The Death of General Warren