Thomas Sully
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Thomas Sully (June 19, 1783 – November 5, 1872) was an American portrait painter.
He was born in the United Kingdom and spent the majority of his life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He painted in the style of Thomas Lawrence.
His subjects included national political figures, such as presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams, General Marquis de Lafayette, and several leading musicians and composers. He created landscapes and historical pieces, such as Passage of the Delaware, in lieu of portraits of wealthy patrons.
His designs were adapted for use on US coins.
Life and career
Sully was born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, in 1783 to actors Matthew Sully and Sarah Chester. The Sullys and their nine children immigrated to Charleston, South Carolina, where Thomas' uncle Thomas Wade West operated a theater. In Charleston, Sully appeared in the theater as a tumbler for the first time. Sully began painting after a brief apprenticeship with an insurance broker who recognized his artistic ability about age 12. He studied with his brother-in-law Jean Belzons (1794–1812), a French miniaturist, before they suffered a falling-out in 1799. Sully lived in Norfolk, Virginia, the city from which his aunt Margaretta Sully West ran her theater and opera company between 1801 and 1802.
While living in Norfolk, Virginia, Sully became a licensed painter at the age of 18. Lawrence Sully (1769-1804), his elder brother Lawrence Sully (1769–1804) and his base in Richmond, Virginia, where they continued to work together. Thomas Sully married Sarah (Annis) Sully, his brother's widow, in 1805. Lawrence's children were reared by him.
In 1806, Sully went to New York. He studied portrait painting under Gilbert Stuart in Boston for three weeks last year. He had landed in Philadelphia by 1808, where he spent the remainder of his life. Sully went to London for nine months of study under American Benjamin West, who had begun his painting career in the United Kingdom.
John Quincy Adams, who became President within a year, and Lafayette's general Marquis de Lafayette's 1824 portraits appear to have gained him acclaim. In Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art, Adams' portrait is on view. Many famous Americans of the day had their portraits painted by him. He was in London from 1837 to 1888, and the St. George's Society in Philadelphia invited him to paint Queen Victoria. Blanche's son helped him with the Queen's "stand-in," by dressing the Queen's costume when she wasn't around. The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society at the University of Virginia owns one of Thomas Jefferson's portraits, which is on display in the University of Virginia's rotunda. This one goes head-to-toe, as does his portrait of General Alexander Macomb.
According to Sully's records, he produced 2,631 paintings from 1801, the majority of which are now in the United States. Thomas Lawrence's style is similar to that of Thomas Lawrence (cf. Rilla Evelyn Jackman "AMERICAN ARTS" 1928 pg. 61 (41), Sully also made historical works and landscapes, although she best known as a portrait painter. The 1819 The Passage of the Delaware, which is now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is an example of the former.
Thomas and Sarah Sully were married together for nine years. Among the children were born Alfred Sully, Mary Chester Sully (who married Sully's protégé, painter John Neagle), Jane Cooper Sully (who married a Mr. Darley), Blanche Sully, Rosalie Sully (who married a Mr. Darley), and Thomas Wilcock Sully.
Sully was one of the founding members of The Musical Fund Society in Philadelphia. He painted portraits of many of the musicians and composers who were also members. Sully was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1835.
Sully was born in Philadelphia on November 5, 1872 and was laid to rest in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
His book Hints to Young Painters was published posthumously.
His works are on display in several of the world's top art museums and museums permanently. Two portraits of Sully are on display in the chambers of the University of North Carolina's Dialectic and Philanthropic societies. Famous alumni of the Societies were commissioned portraits, including that of President James K. Polk. The reverse design of the United States Seated Liberty coinage, which appeared on the Gobrecht dollar in 1836 and continued until 1891, was based on his work. Portraits of Anna and Harriet Coleman by Sully was auctioned in 2013 for $15,000.
During the American Civil War, his uncle, Alfred Sully, served as a brigadier general in the Union Army. Thomas Sully, the great-grandfather of Ella Deloria, author of Custer Diet Your Sins (1969), an American Indian civil rights activist and writer, as well as the distinguished Yankton Dakota scholar and writer; she was born in 1896-1903).
Thomas Sully (1855-1939), the New Orleans-based architect, was Sully's great-uncle.
Henry Lanneau of South Carolina was his student; he later became a portrait painter and Civil War painter.
SS Thomas Sully, the World War II Liberty Ship, was named in his honor.