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John Jenkins Designs
The Death of General Warren set, is inspired by the paintings of the American artist John Trumbull.
Warren was an influential Massachusetts physician and politician, who had been commissioned as a general, but served in the battle as a private. He was killed during or shortly after the storming of the Breed’s Hill redoubt by a British officer.
Artist John Trumbull (1756-1843) was in the colonial army camp at Roxbury, Massachusetts on the day of the battle of Bunker Hill. He watched the battle unfold through field glasses, and later decided to depict one of its central events in several oil paintings. The paintings are iconic images of the American Revolution. Trumbull painted several versions, one is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (dated between 1815 and 1831) This version was commissioned by the Warren family and passed down through the family before being acquired by the museum.
Another larger version (dated 1834) is held by the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.