Thomas Sully (1783-1872)
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF HALSTED B. VANDER POEL
Thomas Sully (1783-1872)

Self Portrait

Details
Thomas Sully (1783-1872)
Self Portrait
signed with initials in monogram, dated and inscribed 'TS June 1850/Age 66.' (on the reverse prior to lining)
oil on canvas
30 x 24½ in. (76.2 x 62.2 cm.)
Provenance
Mr. Tyler, commissioned from the artist.
Ehrich Galleries, New York.
W.T. Charles Scotia, Montgomery County, Alabama.
Mr. Walter Jennings, New York, by 1921.
By descent to Mrs. Walter Jennings, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1933. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 25-26 October 1949, lot 347.
Literature
E. Biddle and M. Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1921, p. 290, no. 1736.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, exhibition catalogue, Sully Memorial Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1922, p. 115, no. 116.
Exhibited
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Sully Memorial Exhibition, 1922, no. 160.

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