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3 unusual facts about Thomas Sully


James Lambdin

He later studied art in Philadelphia for two years (1823–25), from the instruction of Thomas Sully.

Jared Mansfield

He arranged for Thomas Jefferson to sit at Monticello for the painter Thomas Sully, and the resulting full-length portrait now hangs in the USMA Museum.

Rebecca Gratz

Her portrait was painted twice by the noted American artist Thomas Sully.


Doggett's Repository of Arts

The gallery exhibited originals and copies of works by European masters such as Titian, Rembrandt, Watteau, and David, and a few American artists, such as Thomas Sully, Gilbert Stuart, Samuel F.B. Morse, Rembrandt Peale, and William Dunlap.

Henry Bryan Hall

He had painted Napoleon III while still in London, and, after moving to America, painted portraits of the artists Thomas Sully and Charles Loring Elliott.

Merrick Art Gallery

His collection of 18th and 19th century French, German, English, and American paintings fills the gallery and includes romantic, realistic, and impressionistic art by the artists Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Gustav Courbet, Hermann Winterhalter, Thomas Sully, and Charles Courtney Curran.

William Thompson Russell Smith

Here, between 1828 and 1831, he studied art under the portraitist James Lambdin, a former pupil of Thomas Sully.


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