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Tristram Dalton (1738–1817)

This is one of three portraits in a set of miniatures John Trumbull painted in Philadelphia as studies for his unexecuted painting The Inauguration of the President. Tristram Dalton, the Massachusetts senator, was painted along with Theodore Sedgwick (1832.43), a congressman from Massachusetts, and Oliver Ellsworth (1832.44), a senator from Connecticut.

Culture: American

Period: 18th century

Credit: Trumbull Collection

1792

Oil on wood

10.2 x 8.3cm

1832.41

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