Self-Portrait, 1850

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 76.84 × 63.98 cm (30 1/4 × 25 3/16 in.)

framed: 97.79 × 85.41 × 10.8 cm (38 1/2 × 33 5/8 × 4 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

Accession Number

2015.19.112

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

reverse: Portrait of Thos. Sully, the Artist, Painted by Himself 1850

Provenance

William Wilson Corcoran [1798-1888], Washington; gift 10 May 1869 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran, William Wilson

Exhibition History

1926: Exhibition of Early American Paintings, Miniatures, and Silver, National Gallery of Art (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington, 1926, no. 76.

1952: Tribute to W. W. Corcoran, George Washington University, Washington, October 1952.

1966: Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 15 April - 30 September 1966, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

1966: Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 48.

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 319, repro.