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Thomas Sully Works Online
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Original works by Thomas Sully available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Thomas Sully at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Watercolor collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Thomas Sully at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Boston Athenaeum
Thomas Handasyd Perkins
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Portrait of Elizabeth Anne Bates, 1837
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Portrait of Wm Wayne, Chester County PA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Blanche and Rosalie
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
2 works by or related to the artist
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Elias Jonathan Dayton
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Snider Children, 1841
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Martha Wade Young, 1835
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Juvenile Ambition, 1825
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Maryland State Archives
Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana
Portrait of Missy Kieps, 1863
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Portrait of George Washington, 1820
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
Contemplation - The Poetess, 1846
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
Portrait of Levi Fletcher, 1830
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
New-York Historical Society
2 works online
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
Fanny Kemble as Julia
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Southern Alleghenies Museum, Pennsylvania
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio
Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia
(Click on the artwork title, not the thumbnail, to enlarge the image)
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW!
Portrait of Blanch Sully, 1839
The Huntington Library, California
The Jewish Museum, New York City
Miss Sally Etting, 1808
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
Portrait of John Clements Stocker, 1814
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
U.S. Senate Art Collection
Andrew Jackson
U.S. Senate Art Collection
Thomas Jefferson
University of Delaware Museums
4 drawings online (look for the "Click Here" link to scroll through)
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
The Capture of Major André, 1812
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Margaret Siddons Kintzing (Mrs. Benjamin Kintzing), 1812
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Thomas Sully at The Art Renewal Center
Thomas Sully at The Athenaeum 
41 works online by Sully
Thomas Sully in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) 
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Thomas Sully at CGFA
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
The History Project at U.C. Davis
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
FBI Art Theft Program
Portrait of Francis Keeling Valentine Allan
Maryland ArtSource
Shakespeare Illustrated
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Thomas Sully 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
search inside
Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture
look inside
Queen Victoria & Thomas Sully
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