A new addition to Philip Mould Ltd in London is a rare small portrait painted by John Trumbull, in oil on mahogany. Measuring 4 x 3 1/8 inches, the painting is of attorney-at-law William West, who was brother to the artist Benjamin West. The portrait was painted in Philadelphia in 1793.

Another example of Trumbull’s small-scale portraits on mahogany is the one of Thomas Jefferson, in the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art.

Further information on this new–and apparently already sold– discovery may be found at: http://www.historicalportraits.com/InternalMain.asp  , as well as: http://www.courant.com/entertainment/arts/hc-trumbull.artjan31,0,2619601.story  .The link to the Philip Mould main website is http://www.philipmould.com/news.php. 

Word has it that the Trumbull has been promised to the April exhibition of Philadelphian portrait miniatures, in Philadelphia.