Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.

Contemporary scholars and patriots such as Noah Webster, John Trumbull, and Joel Barlow were instrumental in securing the passage of these statutes.

Image: Alexander Hamilton portrait by John Trumbull 1806. jpg | Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, Columbia College

* The Anarchiad by David Humphreys, Joel Barlow, John Trumbull, and Lemuel Hopkins ( 1786 – 87 )

General George Washington at Trenton by John Trumbull, Yale University Art Gallery ( 1792 ).

General ( United States ) | General George Washington Resigning His Commission by John Trumbull, Capitol Rotunda ( commissioned 1817 )

John Trumbull ’ s Declaration of Independence had won popular acclaim in 1820.

British general John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga ( 1777 ), painting by John Trumbull 1822

The paintings on the west side are by John Trumbull: Declaration of Independence, Surrender of General Burgoyne, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and General George Washington Resigning His Commission.

A portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, 1806.

* June 6 – John Trumbull, American painter ( d. 1843 )

John Trumbull had pointed this out as early as 1776, when a shot fired from the fort was able to reach Defiance's summit, and several officers inspecting the hill noted that there were approaches to its summit where gun carriages could be pulled up the sides.

Surrender of Cornwallis to French ( left ) and American ( right ) troops, at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, by John Trumbull.

In 1662, Stratford selectmen Lt. Joseph Judson, Captain Joseph Hawley and John Minor had secured all the written deeds of transfer from the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation for this vast territory that comprises the present-day towns of Trumbull, Shelton and Monroe.

* John Trumbull ( 1750 – 1831 ), American political satirist and poet, was born in Watertown.

Trumbull's children were also influential in the war effort: Joseph Trumbull was a colonel in the Continental Army, Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. was secretary to George Washington, and John Trumbull served first as a soldier and then as Washington's personal aide during the war.

* John Trumbull ( 1756 – 1843 ), American neo-classical painter, famous for artwork in the US Capitol, and the artwork on the back of the two dollar bill, Son of Jonathon Trumbull, Sr.

* Museums such as National Packard Museum, the John Stark Edwards House and Museum, the Sutliff Museum and the Trumbull Art Gallery.

The Trumbull's Declaration of Independence | Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull

Alexander Hamilton in a 1792 portrait by John Trumbull

* John Trumbull ( 1969 ), " Signing of the Declaration of Independence " Jan van Eyck

Roy Mason is essentially a landscape painter whose style and direction has a kinship with the English watercolorists of the early nineteenth century, especially the beautifully patterned art of John Sell Cotman.

* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

John became a painter and illustrator ; Richard was an actor in films such as Yankee Doodle Dandy and later an Emmy-nominated television director of such shows as The Beverly Hillbillies.

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gideon ( John Martin ( painter ) | John Martin )

* 1952 – John Lurie, American actor, musician, painter, director and producer

In 1834, he received his first instruction in art in classes of John Rubens Smith, a portrait painter in Philadelphia.

A mezzotint of Martha Washington, based on a 1757 portrait by John Wollaston ( painter ) | Wollaston

* John Ford Paterson ( 1851 – 1912 ), Scottish-Australian landscape painter ; elected president of Victorian Artists Society in 1902 ; highly regarded 1896 painting Evening in the Bush

* John Chin Young ( 1909 – 1997 ), American painter

* 1738 – John Singleton Copley, American painter ( d. 1815 )

* 1829 – John Everett Millais, English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ( d. 1896 )

* 1850 – John Collier, British writer and painter ( d. 1934 )

* 1792 – John Linnell, English painter ( d. 1882 )

Joseph Severn ( 7 December 1793 – 3 August 1879 ) was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the famous English poet John Keats.

* 1789 – John Martin, English painter ( d. 1854 )

John James Audubon ( Jean-Jacques Audubon ) ( April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851 ) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter.

John W. became a naturalist, writer and painter in his own right.

In 1823 Audubon took lessons in oil painting technique from John Steen, a teacher of American landscape, and history painter Thomas Cole.

* John Crawford Brown ( 1805 – 1867 ), Scottish landscape painter

* John Lewis Brown ( 1829 – 1892 ), French battle, animal, and genre painter

* John George Brown ( 1831 – 1913 ), American painter born Durham, England

* John Appleton Brown ( 1844 – 1902 ), American painter

* John Nash ( artist ) ( 1893 – 1977 ), English painter and engraver

* John Walker ( painter ) ( born 1939 ), nominee for the Turner Prize in 1985