John Jay Homestead State Historic Site

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John Jay painted by John Trumbull ca. 1794. When Jay went to Great Britain to negotiate the Jay Treaty, he asked the artist John Trumbull, son of Governor Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut, to accompany him as his secretary. This portrait was painted around that time and is one of a group of four Trumbull portraits that Jay's son William acquired in 1844. Portraits of George Washington, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton are now in other collections. The portrait of John Jay remains at John Jay Homestead State Historic Site, thanks to the generosity of Jay's descendants.
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