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Live from the National World war ii museum, saturday, november 7, beginning at 11 a. M. Eastern here on cspan three. Each week, American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Dedicated on march 17, 1941, the National Gallery of art was a gift to the American People from financier Andrew Mellon who served as treasury secretary from 1921 until 1930 1932. Up next, we visit the museum to learn about early american portrait painting and the work of John Singleton copley. Dianne hello. We are standing in a room full of portraits, and i think that we can think back to 1917. He said, you see these portraits and you expect answers. I dont think i could put it better than that. Let me give you background. Early painters, without much backward without much training made ambitious, but two captureperts portraits on canvas and this was the most important type of painting in the colonies. There is a great flourishing of portrait activity that became elevated to the level
Thank you. The last day of march 1776 three months before america broke free from britain ab gal adams told her husband, i hope you have declared an independency. John adams let me look for my slide. Here we are. Better get these going. There we are. John adams was then serving in the Second Continental Congress in ffl, urging congress to do just that. Abigail, at the familys house in braintree, massachusetts, fully concurred. Her letter went to denounce Unlimited Power and legislation without representation and to predict a rebellion. The latter part of the letter did not refer to the colonies but to women. The new nations law code abigail advised, ought to remember the ladies. John responded two weeks later that women already had power in practice. Aabigail completed the discussion of the topic three weeks later. Although john was not being very generous, she concluded, women could still defeat mens absolute power. The exchange between abigail and john has long attracted attention, b
Join the cspan conversation like us on facebook, follow us on twitter Andrew O Shaughnessy takes a look at the role British Military leaders played in the American Revolutionary war. Most notably, he discusses general Henry Clinton who served briefly as commanderinchief of the british army. His defeat at the battle of Sullivans Island in january, 1776 marked the first time during the war that american troops successfully defended against a british sea and land invasion. This event from the New York Historical society is about one hour and a half. Thank you very much, i am very grateful to gregory and alex castle who did the logistical arrangements to be invited to the New York Historical society. This is a wonderful collection one of the great historical societies, one of the organizations that ive enjoyed a relationship with in the last 15 or so years thanks largely to you and trustees and former trustees like digg guilder. It has been wonderful to watch just how much it has progresse
Which you could have in europe you would be a valuable acquisition to the art and one of theirst painters in e world, provided you could receive these aids before it is too late in life, and before your manner and taste were corrupted or fixed by working in your little way at boston. Narrator an impressive letter to a young painter and from the distinguished sir joshua reynolds. Could he be right . harpsichord continues John Singleton copley loved his country, but he wanted the richer artistic influences of the old world. Besides, talk of revolution was everywhere. Political contests, he felt, were neither pleasing to an artist nor advantageous to art itself. In 1774, copley left; it would make him a better painter, he thought. Sad for him, sad for america he never returned to his home. At 34, John Singleton copley was already one of the best and most popular painters in the american colonies. The Young American artist John Trumbull said of him, an elegantlooking man dressed in fine ma