THOMAS SULLY (1783-1872) 
THOMAS SULLY (1783-1872) 
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PROPERTY OF A DESCENDANT OF WILLIAM RAWLE
THOMAS SULLY (1783-1872) 

Portrait of William Rawle 

Details
THOMAS SULLY (1783-1872) 
Portrait of William Rawle 
signed and dated Sully. 1808 (lower right)
oil on panel 
29 ¼ x 24 in.  
painted in 1808
Provenance
William Rawle (1759-1836), Philadelphia, the sitter
Juliet (Rawle) Norris, daughter
Dr. Herbert Norris (b. 1843), son
Mrs. Herbert Norris, widow
A member of the Frothingham family, by descent
Theodore Frothingham, Boston, Massachusetts
Louis Josephs, sale of the effects of Mrs. Theodore Frothingham, Boston, circa 1933
Mrs. Herbert Frazier (née Juliet Rawle), Garrison-on-Hudson, New York, great granddaughter of the sitter, by purchase at the above sale
Benjamin R. Frazier III, “Hennett Hill”, Garrison-on-Hudson, son
Thence by descent
Literature
Edward Biddle and Mantle Fielding, Life and Works of Thomas Sully (Philadelphia, 1921), p. 257, no. 1455.
Charles Henry Hart, “Thomas Sully’s Register of Portraits, 1801-1871,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 33, no. 2 (1909), p. 167.

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