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Sully, Thomas

April 7, 2023 By

Thomas Sully (1783-1872)

Birthplace/Origin: Lincolnshire, England

Biography/Statement:

Thomas Sully, (born June 19, 1783, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, Eng.—died Nov. 5, 1872, Philadelphia), one of the finest U.S. portrait painters of the 19th century.

Sully’s parents moved to the United States in 1792, settling in Charleston, S.C. He was a pupil of Gilbert Stuart in Boston (1807) and of Benjamin West in London (1809) and was influenced by the portrait artist Sir Thomas Lawrence. After 1810 he made Philadelphia his home, although in 1838 he visited London to paint a full-length portrait of the young Queen Victoria for the Society of the Sons of St. George of Philadelphia. His masterpiece in portraiture is “Col. Thomas Handasyd Perkins” (1831–32; Boston Athenaeum); his best known painting is “The Passage of the Delaware” (1819; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).

Sully was an industrious painter who worked rapidly; he left about 2,000 portraits, a number of miniatures, and more than 500 subject and historical pictures. His paintings are elegant and romantically warm, emphasizing an economy of form and of color, but his later work suffered from the sentimentality of the mid-19th century.

 

Source: Britannica

 

Works by this artist


Thomas Sully
The Andrews Misses
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 24” x 19“
Frame Size: 30” x 26“
Philadelphia canvas stamp verso
Price: $12500

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