Thomas Sully
Untitled (Portrait of Two Young Girls)
19th Century
Oil on canvas
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Thomas Sully (American, 1783–1872).
This work is sold in a fine giltwood frame.
A teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Thomas Sully became one of the foremost early 19th-century portrait painters, known for painting pretty faces on his subjects. He was the son of English actors and was born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire. He came to Philadelphia in 1792 when he was nine years old. Sully showed early drawing talent and first studied with his older brother, Lawrence, a miniature painter. To earn money, he tried unsuccessfully to have a career in insurance but then turned full time to painting and was able to be critiqued by Gilbert Stuart in Boston. He embraced Stuart's interest in classical styles. Like Stuart, his subjects appear heroic and seem to have a sense of purpose.
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Philadelphia canvas stamp verso.
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This work is in overall excellent condition.
Lined by Yost Conservation.
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