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Thomas Sully

[English-born American Painter, 1783-1872]

• Relationships: Father of Thomas Wilcocks Sully.
Studied under Sir Thomas Lawrence and Benjamin West.
Sully's students included Mary Peale.
• Subject matter:  Specializes in Portraits.
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database   NEW!
2 works by Thomas Sully online

Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Mother

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
3 works online

Thomas Sully at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Reverend Thomas Stockton, 1843
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 1826
Alfred Sully, 1839

Thomas Sully at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
21 works by Thomas Sully online

Thomas Sully at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Queen Victoria and Thomas Sully

Thomas Sully at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Thomas Sully in the Metropolitan

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
Portrait of George Washington, 1820

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Watercolor collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Drawings collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Drawings/watercolor collection online

Thomas Sully at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
20 works by Thomas Sully

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)   NEW!
Portrait of Elizabeth Anne Bates, 1837

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
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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   NEW!
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

Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Martha Wade Young, 1835
Junvenile Ambition, 1825

Thomas Sully in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Maryland State Archives

Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana
Portrait of Missy Kieps, 1863

Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
Portrait of Levi Fletcher, 1830

National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

New-York Historical Society
2 works online

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Frances Anne Kemble as Beatrice

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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6 works by Thomas Sully online

San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Thomas Sully at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Southern Alleghenies Museum, Pennsylvania

Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio

Terra Foundation for the Arts, Chicago
Portrait of Blanch Sully, 1839

The Jewish Museum, New York City
Miss Sally Etting, 1808

The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Queen Victoria, 1838

U.S. Senate Art Collection
Andrew Jackson

U.S. Senate Art Collection
Thomas Jefferson

University of Delaware Museums   NEW!
4 drawings online (look for the "Click Here" link to scroll through)

Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
3 works online

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
The Capture of Major André, 1812

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Margaret Siddons Kintzing (Mrs. Benjamin Kintzing), 1812

Smithsonian Institution 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)

 
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Thomas Sully in the Art Renewal Center

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Web Gallery of Art  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

California State University WorldImages Database  

The Athenaeum  
38 works online by Sully

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

 
Other Web Sites:
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Portrait of Francis Keeling Valentine Allan

Maryland ArtSource

Shakespeare Illustrated

 
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Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Thomas Sully
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
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Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

  
 
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