Benjamin Trumbull [SEP] date of death
Benjamin Trumbull
Benjamin Trumbull (19 December 1735 – 2 February 1820) was an early American historian and preacher. 
Born in Hebron, Colony of Connecticut, Trumbull graduated from Yale in 1759, and received his theological education under Reverend Eleazer Wheelock, who delivered his ordination sermon in 1760, commending him to the people of North Haven as “not a sensual, sleepy, lazy, dumb dog, that could not bark back.” He continued in that charge for nearly sixty years, his preaching being interrupted only by
. 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