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Thomas Wilcocks Sully and Thomas Sully

Major Thomas Biddle, 1832

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 90.5 x 69.5 cm (35 5/8 x 27 3/8 in.)

framed: 122.9 x 102.4 x 11.6 cm (48 3/8 x 40 5/16 x 4 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1942.8.31

Artists / Makers

Thomas Wilcocks Sully (artist) American, 1811 - 1847

Thomas Sully (artist) American, born England, 1783 - 1872

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Provenance

The sitter's sister, Ann Biddle Hopkinson [Mrs. Francis Hopkinson, 1800-1863], Bordentown, New Jersey; her daughter and the sitter's niece, Emily Hopkinson Scovel [1839-1883]; her daughter, Florence Scovel Shinn [b. 1871], New York; purchased 4 November 1918 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Company, New York), to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1942 to NGA.

Associated Names

Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Hopkinson, Ann Biddle
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
Scovel, Emily Hopkinson
Shinn, Florence Scovel

Exhibition History

1922: Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, March 1922, no. 12, as by Thomas Sully.

1922: Memorial Exhibition of Portraits by Thomas Sully, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1922, no. 125.

1926: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Century Association, New York, 1926, no. 6, as by Thomas Sully.

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, as by Thomas Sully.

1944: John Trumbull and his Contemporaries, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, 1944, no. 123.

1955: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.

1956: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956.

1966: Loan for display with permanent collection, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C., 1964-1987.

1988: Extended loan for use by Blair House, Washington, D.C., 1988-1995.

Bibliography

1909: Hart 1909, no. 141, 30.

1921: Biddle, Edward, and Mantle Fielding. The Life and Works of Thomas Sully (1783-1872). Philadelphia, 1921: no. 147, 101.

1922: Catalogue ofthe Memorial Exhibition of Portraits by Thomas Sully. Exh. cat. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1922: no. 125, 89.

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.

1949: Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 144, repro.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 114, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 245, repro.

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: 192-195, color repro.