THOMAS SULLY* (1783-1872)

Details

THOMAS SULLY* (1783-1872)

Mrs. Newbold and her Son

signed with initials TS and dated 1813, l.r.--oil on canvas
34¾ x 39½in. (88 x 100cm.) (in an arched top)

Provenance

Mrs. E. R. Newbold, Philadelphia, the sitter
Charles Newbold, Philadelphia, her son
Mary Newbold Harding, New York

Literature

C.H. Hart, A Registrar of Portraits Painted by Thomas Sully, 1909, p. 126, no. 1262, as Half Length, 1813
E. Biddle and M. Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully, 1921, p. 239, no. 1315 as Half Length

Further details

Lot Essay

Mrs. Elizabeth Ross Newbold (1788-1860), the daughter of Thomas Ross and Mary Thomas, married Philadelphia importer, Caleb Newbold (1782-1852), in 1808. Of the the three sons of Caleb and Elizabeth Ross Newbold, four-year old Thomas Ross Newbold (1809-1858) is the child depicted in this double portrait. This may have been the painting exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1813, no. 186 as Lady and Child.