ID 1122222
Lot 487 | THOMAS SULLY (1783-1872)
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 300 000
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.
| Artist: | Thomas Sully (1783 - 1872) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Thomas Sully (1783 - 1872) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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