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Thomas Sully

Francis Hopkinson, 1834

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G42-A

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 51 x 43.5 cm (20 1/16 x 17 1/8 in.)

framed: 74.9 x 67.3 x 8.9 cm (29 1/2 x 26 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1942.8.33

Artists / Makers

Thomas Sully (artist) American, born England, 1783 - 1872

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Inscription

lower left: TS. (in monogram) 1834.

Provenance

The sitter's daughter, Emily Hopkinson Scovel [1839-1883]; her daughter, Florence Scovel Shinn [b. 1871], New York; purchased 11 April 1918 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1942 to NGA.

[1] Acquisition date according to 1928 Clarke exhibition catalogue annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library). This source also places the painting in the collection of Charles Harris, an associate of Clarke's, between 1921-1922. It is possible that Harris purchased the painting and resold it to Clarke.

Associated Names

Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
Scovel, Emily Hopkinson
Shinn, Florence Scovel

Exhibition History

1921: Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, December 1921, no. 3.

1922: Memorial Exhibition of Portraits by Thomas Sully, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1922, no. 201.

1928: Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue.

1943: American Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1943.

1947: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1947.

1948: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1948.

1949: Exhibition of Early American Portraits on Loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville, North Carolina, 1949, no. 11.

1950: From Plymouth Rock to the Armoury, The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, 1950, no. 19, repro.

1950: The Face of American History, Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, 1950, no. 18.

1951: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1951.

1951: American Portraits from the National Gallery of Art, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1951, no. 20, repro. (organized by the Atlanta Art Association).

1952: [Opening exhibition], Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1952, no. cat.

1952: [Opening exhibition of new art gallery], Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1952-1953, no cat.

1952: Opening Exhibition of The George Thomas Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga Art Association, Tennessee, 1952, unnumbered.

1953: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953.

1955: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.

1955: Famous Americans, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland, 1955, no cat.

1956: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956.

1983: Extended loan for use by Ambassador David Abshire, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 1983-1987.

1987: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Alton J. Keel, Jr., Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 1987-1989.

1989: Extended loan for use by Ambassador William H. Taft IV, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 1989-1992.

1992: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 1992-1993.

1993: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Robert E. Hunter, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 1993-1997.

1997: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Alexander R. Vershbow, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 1997-2001.

2001: Extended loan for use by Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 2001-2005.

2005: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Victoria Nuland, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 2005-2008.

2005: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Victoria Nuland, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 2005-2008.

2008: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Kurt Volker, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 2008-2009.

2009: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Ivo Daalder, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Brussels, Belgium, 2009-2012.

Bibliography

1909: Hart 1909, no. 784, 82.

1921: Biddle, Edward, and Mantle Fielding. The Life and Works of Thomas Sully (1783-1872). Philadelphia, 1921: no. 809, 177.

1922: Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition of Portraits by Thomas Sully. Exh. cat. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1922: no. 201, 149.

1928: Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, unnumbered.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 112, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 241, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 363, repro.

1998: Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 178-180, color repro.