ID 1122270
Lot 479 | THOMAS SULLY (1783-1872) AND JANE COOPER SULLY (1807-1877), AFTER DAVID MARTIN
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 200 000
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
later inscribed 1834 TS from a Portrot [sic] of / Franklin in Peales / Museum Phila / COPP FROM OLD CANVAS (on reverse)
oil on canvas
51 x 44 in.
Painted in 1834
Provenance
Probably acquired by Benjamin Franklin Pepper (1879-1918), Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, great-great-great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, or his father, William Pepper (1843-1898), Philadelphia
Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Pepper, née Rebecca Thomson Willing (1882-1955), Ballygarth, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, wife
B. Franklin Pepper (1930-2011), Alexandria, Virginia, grandson
Benjamin Franklin Pepper, Jr. and Holly (Pepper) White, children and current owners
Literature
Charles Henry Hart, “Thomas Sully’s Register of Portraits, 1801-1871,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 33, no. 1 (1909), p. 32, no. 575.
Edward Biddle and Mantle Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully (Philadelphia, 1921), p. 154, no. 602.
| 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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