Anthony Van Corlaer, 1858. Painting by Charles Loring Elliott. The Walters Art Museum.
Anthony Van Corlaer is a fictional trumpeter of New Amsterdam, appearing in Washington Irving's 1809 A History of New York, as well as derivative lore.[1]
The trumpeter is portrayed as a loyal follower to the real historical Peter Stuyvesant, with a contrasting boisterous temperament to the stern colonial governor. In a mock-heroic concluding episode, the character curses (and so gives a name to) Spuyten Duyvil Creek before diving in to cross it, then drowns while giving a final triumphant blast of warning about the English invasion.
The character and incident were sometimes later described as fact or "legend", but Washington seems to have only drawn from an account by David Pietersz. de Vries of an unnamed boisterous and pugilistic trumpeter in the colony.
^Dunwell, Frances F. (May 12, 2008). The Hudson: America's River. Columbia University Press. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-0-231-13640-2.
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