Artist: Thomas Sully (1783 - 1872)
Nationality: British
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Thomas Sully was a leading American portraitist during the 18th century. He was born in England and immigrated to the United States as a child. IN his early career, he made two return trips to England to study. The second of these trips was from 1837 to 1838 when Sully was hired to paint Queen Victoria for the Society of the Sons of St. George of Philadelphia. Sully had a prolific and successful career, painting around 2,000 portraits throughout his lifetime. However, his most famous painting is the historical piece, Washington Crossing the Delaware.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Rembrandt Peale - Thomas Sully 1859 oil on canvas board National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully Alfred Sully oil on paperboard (now mounted on laminate board) 1839
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Thomas Sully The Reverend Thomas Stockton oil on canvas 1843
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Thomas Sully Charles Carroll of Carrollton oil on canvas 1826
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Artist: Thomas Sully Title: Portrait of George Washington Date: 1820 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions:
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Thomas Sully - Thomas Alston 1826 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully, American (born in England), 1783-1872 Fanny Kemble 1833 Oil on canvas 77.47 x
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Thomas Sully - Thomas Handasyd Perkins 1832 oil on canvas Boston Athenaeum American
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Thomas Sully - Mrs. Caleb Newbold and Her Son Thomas 1813 oil on canvas The Columbus Museum
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Thomas Sully, American (born in England), 1783-1872 John Myers 1814 Oil on canvas 91.12 x
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Thomas Sully - The Gypsy Girl 1839 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Thomas Sully - Henry Pratt 1815 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully - Francis Hopkinson 1834 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully - The Walsh Sisters 1834-35 oil on canvas Speed Art Museum American
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Thomas Sully - Mrs. Edward Hudson 1814 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Thomas Sully - Dr. Joseph Klapp 1814 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Thomas Sully - Dr. Edward Hudson 1810 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Thomas Sully - Andrew Jackson 1845 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully - Abraham Kintzing 1815 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully - Robert Walsh 1814 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully - Joseph Dugan 1810 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully - Mrs. William Griffin 1830 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully - The Vanderkemp Children 1832 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully - The David Children 1826 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully - The Leland Sisters c. 1830 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully - The Coleman Sisters 1844 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully - Captain Charles Stewart 1811-1812 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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THomas Sully - Portrait of George Washington c. 1820 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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Thomas Sully, American (born in England), 1783-1872 Sheet of Figure Studies 1830s Pen, and brown
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Thomas Sully - Mrs. Klapp (Anna Milnor) 1814 Oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Thomas Sully - Charles Carnan Ridgely 1820 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully - John Quincy Adams 1824 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully - John Philip Kemble 1867 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully, American (born in England), 1783-1872 The Rosebud 1839 Oil on canvas 72.39 x
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Thomas Sully, American (born in England), 1783-1872 The Passage of the Delaware 1819 Oil on
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Thomas Sully, American (born in England), 1783-1872 Mrs. Joseph Rotch (Anne Smith) 1831 Oil on
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Thomas Sully - Lieutenant Jean Terford David 1813 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Thomas Sully - Lady with a Harp: Eliza Ridgely 1818 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully - Ann Biddle Hopkinson (Mrs. Francis Hopkinson) 1834 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Sully, American (born in England), 1783-1872 Victor René Value and His Daughter Charlotte 1828
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Thomas Sully, American (born in England), 1783-1872 The Torn Hat 1820 Oil on panel 48.58
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Édouard-Denis Baldus, French, 1813-1882 Roof, Pavillon Sully, Louvre 1855-57 Photograph, salt print Image/Sheet: 22.2 x
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Thomas Gainsborough - The Hon. Mrs. Thomas Graham c. 1775-1777 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Thomas Lupton Thomas Chalmers, D.D, L.L.D, & F.R.S.E. 18th - 19th century
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Thomas King Thomas Parr, aged 152 years 18th century
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Hans Holbein the Younger - Sir Thomas More 1527 oil on panel The Frick Collection German
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Thomas Hill Reverend Thomas Starr King oil on canvas 19th - 20th century
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Thomas Cheesman - Thomas Moor Ld. Chancelour (after Hans Holbien) 1812 colored print University of California, Berkeley Art Museum English
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Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish, 1598-1664 St. Peter Thomas about 1632 Oil on canvas 92.4 x
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Thomas Cornell Pig Etching 1960
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George de Forest Brush, American, 1855-1941 The Thomas Sisters (Margaret Thomas Gardiner and Helen Thomas
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John Wesley Jarvis - Thomas Paine c. 1806-1807 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - Thomas Amory II c. 1770-1772 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Thomas Jefferson 1832-1892 bronze National Gallery of Art French
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John Singleton Copley - Thomas Greene 1758 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Gilbert Stuart - Thomas Jefferson c. 1805-07 oil on canvas Bowdoin College Museum of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - Thomas Jefferson c. 1821 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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John Smibert - Mrs. Thomas Bullfinch c. 1734 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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John Smibert - Mrs. Thomas Bullfinch c. 1734 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Arthur Pond - Thomas Gray probably 1731 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Lady Peel - Sir Thomas Lawrence 1827 oil on canvas The Frick Collection British
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Ralph Earl - Thomas Earle 1800 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Hesselius - Thomas Chamberlaine 1772-75 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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John Neagle - Thomas W. Dyott c. 1836 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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William Dunlap - Mrs. Thomas A. Cooper n.d. oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Incredulity of Thomas
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Lydia Field Emmet - Portrait of Thomas Ewing III c. 1932 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano - The Incredulity of Saint Thomas c. 1502-1504 oil on synthetic pan The National Gallery, London Italian
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John Thomas Smith Topography of London (London: John Thomas Smith, 1810). BOUND WTH: Etchings of Remarkable Beggars, Itinerant Tradersä (London: John Thomas Smith, 1815) book with etchings (two with hand coloring) 1810 - 1815
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Saints Andrew and Thomas before 1627 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Italian
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Gilbert Stuart - Commodore Thomas Macdonough c. 1815-1818 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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Auguste Rodin - Thomas Fortune Ryan 1909-1910 bronze National Gallery of Art French
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Louis Gauffier - Portrait of Dr. Thomas Penrose 1798 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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Carrie Mae Weems - Sea Island Series (Thomas) 1992 Three color photogra Des Moines Art Center American
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George Romney - Mrs. Thomas Scott Jackson c. 1770-1773 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Camille Pissarro - Two Women Chatting by the Sea, St. Thomas 1856 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Robert Street - Elizabeth Price Thomas 1834 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Asher B. Durand - Portrait of Thomas Cole c. 1837 oil on canvas The Berkshire Museum American
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Thomas Shotter Boys Huy, on the Meuse Lithograph 1838
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John Clem Clarke - Copley-- Governor And Mrs. Thomas Mifflin 1969 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Hans Holbein the Younger - Portrait of Sir Thomas Le Strange of Hunstanton 1536 oil and tempera on p Kimbell Art Museum German
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Charles Willson Peale - Mrs. Thomas Elliot (Mary Chew) 1787 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art American
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Sir William Beechey - Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton 1815-1817 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Jean Antoine Houdon - Armand-Thomas Hue, Marquis de Miromesnil 1777 marble The Frick Collection French
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Camille Pissarro - A Creek in St. Thomas (Virgin Islands) 1856 oil on academy board National Gallery of Art French
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Carlo Dolci - Sir Thomas Baines, F.R.S., F.R.C.P. 1622-1681 1665-1670 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum Italian
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Thomas Rowlandson The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi? in Hindostan, A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos by Quiz (London: Thomas Tegg, 1816) book with 28 aquatints with hand coloring 1816
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Thomas Shotter Boys Byloke, Ghent color lithograph 1838
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Sir William Beechy - Portrait of Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell c. 1838 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art English
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George Romney - Thomas Grove of Ferne, Wiltshire 1788 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art English
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Mather Brown - Thomas Dawson, Viscount Cremorne c. 1788 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Shotter Boys Chapel of the Institute, Paris color lithograph 1838
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Thomas Rowlandson Chesterfield Travestie or School for Fine Manners (London: Thomas Tegg, 1808) book with text only 1808
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Thomas Cook William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, plate opposite page 306 in the book Caricature History of the Georges by Thomas Wright (London: John Camden Hotten, [ca. 1867] steel engraving 1867
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Thomas Shotter Boys St. Laurent, Rouen color lithograph 19th century
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Thomas Shotter Boys Treves lithograph with hand coloring 1838
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Thomas Shotter Boys Roche Bayard on the Meuse lithograph 1838
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Thomas Lawrence Engravings from the choicest Works of Sir Thomas Lawrence (London: Henry Graves & Co., [ca. 1846] book with mezzotint engravings 1846
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Thomas Shotter Boys Belfry in Ghent color lithograph 19th century
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Thomas Shotter Boys Rue Notre Dame, Paris color lithograph 1838

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (5)
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University of Essex Art Gallery: Gorgeously Repulsive: Charlotte Bernstein, Simon Collins, Angela Edmonds, Daniel Lehan, Prudence Emma Staite, Kate Sully
Artist Prudence Emma Staite who recently created works for the Dali Universe, will craft a site-specific chocolate room that can be interacted with and consumed. Angela Edmondsí recreates her humorous 1994 work Sweet Tooth - a chocolate cak...
Louvre: Dominique-Vivant Denon, the eye of Napoléon
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Fresno Metropolitan Museum: Becoming A Nation: Americana from the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State
"Becoming A Nation" provides the visitor with outstanding examples of America's achievement in the arts between the mid 18th and early 19th centuries like the great Philadelphia high chest attributed to Joseph Deleveau, an exquisite settee by Dunc...
Portland Museum of Art: Becoming a Nation: Americana from the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U. S. Department of State
The exhibition, curated by Dr. Jonathan Fairbanks, presents some of the finest examples of American paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and furniture of the golden age of American decorative and fine arts, from approximately 1750-1825. From the...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: American Drawings and Watercolors: Highlights from the Collection, 1710-1890
The exhibition will offer a rare opportunity to see many of the Museum's American works on paper, which – due to their fragile nature and sensitivity to light – are displayed only periodically. The often informal character or preparatory function ...

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