Lot Details
Lot 2447
Tom Lovell
1909-1997
General John A. Quitman and a Battalion of Marines Entering Mexico City, 1847
Signed Tom Lovell (lr)
Oil on canvas
33 x 45 inches
Literature:
Marine Corps Gazette, October 1944, cover illustration
General John A. Quitman and a Battalion of Marines Entering Mexico City is one of a series of paintings by the artist depicting famous incidents from the history of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Born in New York state, John A. Quitman (1799-1858) in 1821 settled in Natchez, Mississippi, where he entered state politics. At the beginning of the Mexican War, he enlisted as a Brigadier-General of Volunteers. He commanded a brigade under Zachary Taylor in Northern Mexico, and was then assigned to General Winfield Scott's expedition into the heart of Mexico. After battling across the country and a siege of Mexico City, on September 14, 1847, the citadel surrendered. General Quitman entered the city by the West Gate at the head of a variety of U.S. troops, including a battalion of Marines, a brigade of infantry led by General Persifor Smith, and a contingent of New York volunteers. As the historian Justin Smith [The War with Mexico, (New York: Macmillan: 1911)] describes this procession, "Quitman
General Quitman went on to become governor of Mississippi in 1850 and later served several terms as a Congressman from Natchez before his premature death in 1858.
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