Lot Essay
This portrait was painted in 1824 during Lafayette's return visit to America after the Revolutionary War.
Details
THOMAS SULLY* (1783-1872)
A Life Study of the Marquis De Lafayette
oil on canvas
22 x 19 1/4 in. (55.8 x 48.7 cm.)
A Life Study of the Marquis De Lafayette
oil on canvas
22 x 19 1/4 in. (55.8 x 48.7 cm.)
Provenance
Herbert Welsh, Philadelphia
Dorothy Welsh Imbrie, New York, his daughter
Frances Fraser Imbrie Dayton, Princeton, her daughter
By descent in the family to the present owner
Dorothy Welsh Imbrie, New York, his daughter
Frances Fraser Imbrie Dayton, Princeton, her daughter
By descent in the family to the present owner
Literature
E. Biddle and M. Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully, Charleston, 1969, p. 204, no. 1019
Exhibited
Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, "Exhibition of Historical Portraits", 1887, no. 489
Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Memorial Exhibition of Portraits by Thomas Sully, April-May 1922, p. 166, no. 220, illus. as Marquis De Lafayette, Study from Life
Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Memorial Exhibition of Portraits by Thomas Sully, April-May 1922, p. 166, no. 220, illus. as Marquis De Lafayette, Study from Life