Thomas Mifflin

John Trumbull

ca. 1790 · Oil on mahogany · The American Wing

One of the leading men in colonial Pennsylvania, Thomas Mifflin (1744–1800) later became governor of the state and a member of the legislature. During the Revolutionary War, he served with Trumbull as an aide-de-camp to General George Washington. Trumbull painted this miniature portrait at the same time as the nearly identical example in the collection of Yale University Art Gallery. Trumbull used the miniature portraits for depictions of Mifflin in two of his major history paintings, "The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton" and "The Resignation of General Washington" (both Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.).

Artist

John Trumbull

Date

ca. 1790

Medium

Oil on mahogany

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Gift of J. William Middendorf II, 1968