THOMAS SULLY* (1783-1872)

Lot 8

Details

THOMAS SULLY* (1783-1872)

Portrait of William Brown

oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.3 x 63.4 cm.)

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. William B. Glover, III, Texas

Literature

E. Biddle and M. Fielding, The Life and Work of Thomas Sully, Charleston, 1921, p. 108, no. 213

Exhibited

New York, The Brooklyn Museum, Exhibition of Portraits, Miniatures, Color Sketches and Drawings by Thomas Sully, 1921, no. 53
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1970
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, American Art from the Colonial and Federal Periods, 1982, p. 79, no. 65, illus.

Lot Essay

This painting was signed with the artist's conjoined initials TS and dated 1833 on the reverse before lining.

William Brown was a Philadelphia merchant engaged in the China Trade. He owned five clipper ships. According to Sully's Register, this painting was started on May 22, 1833 and was completed on June 6, 1833. Sully charged $100 for it.