Tecumseh Portrait by Benson Lossing

Tecumseh Portrait by Benson Lossing

A colored version of Benson Lossing's portrait of Tecumseh. No fully authenticated of Tecumseh exists; Lossing had not met the Native Indian leader and assumed that he was a British general. Based on a pencil sketch by Pierre le Dru, Lossing replaced Tecumseh's native costume with a British uniform and painted this portrait.

(Taken from Tecumseh's Last Stand by John Sudgen )

Benson John Lossing

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c. 1868