Discover painter, miniaturist painter Thomas Sully

Qualifications: painter, miniaturist painter

Nationality/school: English, American
imigrated to the US on the age of nine

Born: Horncastle (Lincolnshire) 1783-06-19

Deceased: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) 1872-11-05

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: brother of Lawrence Sully, father of Thomas Wilcocks Sully and father-in-law of the portrait painter John Neagle

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4 hits in RKDimages as artist
2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

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Richmond (Virginia) 1792
Charleston (South Carolina)
Norfolk (Virginia) 1801 - 1806
shared a studio with his brother
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) 1806 - 1807
Boston (Massachusetts) 1807
Londen (Engeland) 1809
stuied fotr nine months with Benjamin West
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Fraser, Charles
Stuart, Gilbert
West, Benjamin
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Lawrence, Thomas

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: figure, history (genre), portrait
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Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Groce/Wallace 1957 , p. 614
Fielding/Carr 1965 , p. 357
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 10, p. 9
Busse 1977 , p. 1214
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 299
Baigell 1979 , p. 347
Rubinstein 1982 , p. 47

M.C. Conrads, American paintings to 1945 : the collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, dl. 1, Kansas City 2007, p. 516-519

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Project: Dutch Utopia
Gerson Digital : North America

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Creation date: 1992-01-26; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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