General George Eliott Art Print - Mather Brown Size:8″×10″ Massachusetts 1761–1831 London)

Massachusetts 1761–1831 London)

The copyist added the landscape background

Colored Troops

(Eliott is also portrayed in John Trumbull’s painting of the scene

but he emulated Dutch Italianate painters who had been there

General George Eliott Art Print - Mather Brown Size:8″×10″ Massachusetts 1761–1831 London)About the Art: Browns grand manner portrait of General George Eliott (17171790) is a great spectacle that captured both the painter and his subject at the pinnacle of their respective careers. Descended from Americas earliest settlers, Brown grew up in Boston and trained in London under Benjamin West. General Eliott commanded the British garrison against the allied Spanish and French forces at Gibraltar (177983). The pyrotechnic portrait shows Eliott