Smithsonian American Art Museum
David McClellan
Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843 · ca. 1805
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.
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