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The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman

Thomas Sully

General Jackson After the Battle of New Orleans

Auction Closed

December 11, 04:21 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Passion of American Collectors:

Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman

Thomas Sully

1783 - 1872

General Jackson After the Battle of New Orleans


signed with monogrammed initials TS, dated 1870 and titled General Jackson after the Battle of New Orleans, from a former sketch (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

25 1/2 by 16 1/2 inches

(64.8 by 41.9 cm)

Mrs. Albert Sully, Brooklyn, New York (wife of Dr. Albert Sully, the artist's grandson)
Clendenin J. Ryan, New York, circa 1950
Private collection, 1991 (by descent; sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 21, 2003, lot 204)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale
Edward Biddle and Mantle Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1921, no. 887, p. 187