Lot 18
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Thomas Sully* (1783-1872)
Thomas Sully* (1783-1872)

Portrait of Jonathan Williams

Details
Thomas Sully* (1783-1872)
Portrait of Jonathan Williams
watercolor and ink on paper
9 3/8 x 6½in. (24.7 x 16.5cm.)
Provenance
The artist
Mrs. Robert F. Sully (Mabel H. Sully)
By descent in the family to the present owner
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., The National Portrait Gallery, Thomas Sully, June-September 1983, no. 23

Lot Essay

Colonel Jonathan Williams (1750-1815) was the organizer and first superintendant of the United States Military Academy at West Point and was the general of the New York Militia in 1812. This watercolor was painted in 1814 as a study for the oil portrait that now hangs at West Point.