Thomas Sully
(1783–1872) engelsk-amerikansk målare (1783–1872)
Thomas Sully (USA, 1783–1872) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Thomas Sully belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.
Thomas Sully was born in Horncastle and died in Philadelphia. Thomas Sully studied under Gilbert Stuart. Thomas Sully worked in Philadelphia, London, Boston, and Charleston. Wikidata associates Thomas Sully with Neoclassicism. Thomas Sully became a member of American Philosophical Society. The students included John Neagle.
One of the best-known works is ‘Prison Scene from J. Fenimore Cooper’s “The Pilot”: “Cecelia Howard and Katherine Plowden arousing the prisoner Edward Griffith from his slumber.”’. The works belong mainly to the genres portrait painting, portrait, and figure. The catalogue has 207 works by Thomas Sully with free images. The dated works span the years 1802–1867. Works by Thomas Sully are held by several collections, among them Yale Center for British Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Princeton Art Museum, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include John Wesley Jarvis, Edward Hicks, Henriette Gertruide Knip, Johan Niclas Byström, and Samuel Prout.