Also known as: The Siege and Relief of Gibraltar
Oil on canvas; 302 cm × 762 cm (214 in × 297 in). Guildhall Art Gallery, London, England.
Portrays an event in September 1782 during the ongoing siege at Gibraltar, in the European theater, during the American Revolution. General George Eliott, commander of the British forces, is portrayed in the center.
See also Mather Brown’s portrait of Eliott and John Trumbull’s Gibraltar painting showing an event from the previous year.
Jefferson biographers express astonishment that the apprenticeship with Wythe lasted five full years, 1762 - 67, at a time when almost no one studied law for more than two. Patrick Henry studied not more than six weeks,
or so at least he told Jefferson, and Wythe for one was so convinced of the inadequacy of Henry’s training he refused to sign his license. Jefferson’s years under Wythe, years of virtually uninterrupted reading, not only in the law but also in ancient classics, English literature, and general political philosophy, were not so much an apprenticeship for law as an apprenticeship for greatness.