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David McClellan
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
These portraits were painted in 1805, after Benjamin Trott had set out on horseback for a yearlong journey westward. They are two of the many works created as the artist made his way through Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Ohio, states that then defined the nation’s western borders.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineDavid McClellan. ca. 1805. Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund. CC0.
