Lot 2239
  • 2239

Thomas Sully (1783 - 1872)

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Thomas Sully
  • Mrs. Mordecai Lewis
  • initialed TS and dated 1843 (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 20 by 17 in.
initialed TS and dated 1843 (lower left)

Provenance

R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago, Illinois

Literature

Edward Biddle and Mantle Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1921, no. 1077, p. 211;
George Parker, “Merchants and Planters: American Portraits of the Colonial Period and the Early Republic,” Wisconsin Academy Review: A Journal of Wisconsin Culture, Fall 1997, vol. 43, no. 4, p. 30, illustrated.

Condition

The canvas has been trimmed and wax-lined. There is frame abrasion along all edges. Under UV: there are some scattered specks of inpainting in the background and around the figure's bonnet. There is one spot and several specks of inpainting in her hair and 1 spot in her left cheek.
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Catalogue Note

Thomas Sully painted this portrait for the subject's daughter, Mrs. Fisher, in the autumn of 1843.