John Philip Kemble

1867

Thomas Sully

Painter, American, born England, 1783 - 1872

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 53.6 x 40.9 cm (21 1/8 x 16 1/8 in.)
    framed: 66.7 x 54 x 5.1 cm (26 1/4 x 21 1/4 x 2 in.)

  • Accession

    1947.17.111

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Augustus W. Oberwalder [Augustus de Forest], New York); purchased 13 December 1920 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA.
[1] The painting is listed in Edward Biddle and Mantle Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully 1783-1872, Philadelphia, 1921: 197, as the property of A. T. Bay, who was Clarke's secretary Alice T. Bay.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1924

  • Exhibition of the Earliest Known Portraits of Americans by Painters of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, The Union League Club, New York, March 1924, no. 14.

1928

  • Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue.

Bibliography

1909

  • Hart 1909, no. 930, 95.

1921

  • Biddle, Edward, and Mantle Fielding. The Life and Works of Thomas Sully (1783-1872). Philadelphia, 1921: no. 963, 197.

1928

  • Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, unnumbered, as by Thomas Sully.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 108, repro., as after Gilbert Stuart.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 239, repro., as after Gilbert Stuart.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 364, repro.

1998

  • Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 188-191, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20188698

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