Artist
Thomas Sully
American, 1783–1872
Thomas Sully was an American American Impressionism painter. 77 works are cataloged here, principally at National Gallery of Art, most of them oil paintings. Thomas Sully was born in Horncastle.
Thomas Sully was an English-American portrait painter. He was born in England, became a naturalized American citizen in 1809, and lived most of his life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, including in the Thomas Sully Residence. He studied painting in England under Benjamin West.
He painted in the style of Thomas Lawrence and has been referred to as the "Sir Thomas Lawrence of America".
Works by Thomas Sully
Mother and Son
Portrait of the Artist
Queen Victoria
Self-Portrait
Madame Jerome Bonaparte (Elizabeth Patterson)
The Student
William Gwynn
Major John Biddle
Queen Victoria
Alfred Sully
Joseph Dugan
Andrew Jackson
Francis Hopkinson
John Quincy Adams
Lady with a Harp: Eliza Ridgely
Charles Carnan Ridgely
Ann Biddle Hopkinson (Mrs. Francis Hopkinson)
Mrs. Huges
Child Asleep (The Rosebud)
The David Children
Mrs. Thomas Sully (Sarah Annis)
John Finley
Mrs. William Wortley Worsley (Rebecca Smith)
Sarah Annis Sully (Mrs. Thomas Sully)
Portrait of a Lady
Mrs. John Biddle (Eliza Falconer Bradish)
Mrs. James Montgomery, Jr.
Mrs. Katherine Matthews
The Vanderkemp Children
Mrs. William Griffin
The Coleman Sisters
John Philip Kemble
Thomas Alston
Robert Walsh
Musidora
The Leland Sisters
Collections represented
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