THOMAS SULLY (1783-1872)

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$ 100 000
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19.01.2024 10:00UTC -04:00
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Lot 487 | THOMAS SULLY (1783-1872)
THOMAS SULLY (1783-1872)

DR. BENJAMIN RUSH

initialed and dated TS 1813 (lower left)

oil on canvas

44 ¼ x 34 ¼in.

Painted in 1813





Provenance

Anne Emily (Rush) Cuthbert (1779-1850), daughter of the sitter

Julia Williams (Rush) Biddle (1832-1898), Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, niece

Colonel Alexander Biddle (1819-1899), Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, husband

Robert M. Lindsay Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1902



Literature

Charles Henry Hart, “Thomas Sully's Register of Portraits, 1801-1871,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 33, no. 2 (1909), p. 172, no. 1460.

Edward Biddle and Mantle Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully (Philadelphia, 1921), p. 265, no. 1530.



Exhibited

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits, 1887.
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