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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: November 29, 2015
Caption: The Trial of Red Jacket
Additional Description: This dramatic 1869 painting by John Mix Stanley hangs in Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.

“Red Jacket (1758-1830) was a famous leader of the Seneca tribe of the Iroquois Nation. In this ambitious painting, John Mix Stanley showed the chief defending himself against a charge of witchcraft. Under his white robe is the red jacket given to him by a British officer for his help as a messenger during the American Revolution. Stanley trained as a portrait painter, and all of the figures in this work are portraits of identifiable individuals.…” — Henry Luce Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Submitted: June 27, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p386888
File Size: 2.078 Megabytes

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