Sterling Hundley Illustration

Title: Big Brother Hero, Original painting
Size: 20" x 25.5"
Medium: Mixed on Board

Commissioned by Virginia Living Magazine, this original illustration by artist Sterling Hundley of George Rogers Clark, was created to accompany the attached story.

Big Brother Hero
for Virginia Living
By: Sterling Hundley

Great battles are remembered for the spoils gained, and by the souls lost. Perhaps that is why George Rogers Clark lives in the historic shadow of his younger brother, the much celebrated William Clark, of the Lewis and Clark expedition fame.
Beginning in May of 1778, Virginia-born General George Rogers Clark led roughly 175 Virginia militiamen through the Northwest territory on one of the most successful campaigns of the Revolutionary War. Clark’s poorly funded and under trained militia conquered the British held posts of Kaskaskia, Sackville and Vincennes, convinced many of the hostile, British armed Indian tribes to transfer their support to the Americans, and served as the catalyst of the 1783 Treaty of Paris which nearly doubled the size of the thirteen original colonies- all without the loss of a single life.
Textbooks may champion younger brother William for returning with the spoils of exploration, but families should honor older brother George for returning home with our very lineage.