Portrait of Jean Terford David
1813
Thomas Sully
Thomas Sully (American, 1783–1872)
American Painting and Sculpture
Portrait of Jean Terford David, 1813. Thomas Sully (American, 1783–1872). Oil on canvas; framed: 122 x 103 x 10 cm (48 1/16 x 40 9/16 x 3 15/16 in.); unframed: 89.5 x 70.5 cm (35 1/4 x 27 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1916.1979.1 Sully's working motto was "flattery--nothing so sure of success as flattering your portraits."
- Maker/Artist
- Sully, Thomas
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 122 x 103 x 10 cm (48 1/16 x 40 9/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 89.5 x 70.5 cm (35 1/4 x 27 3/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed lower right: "TS 1813 [TS in monogram]"
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1916.1979.1
- Credit Line
- Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Exhibitions
- Inaugural Exhibition, A Century and a Half of American Art, Thomas Sully: Painted Performance, Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition (6 June-20 September, 1916), no. 156.<br>Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition of Portraits by Thomas Sully (1922), pp. 5-7, cat. no. 71, illus. p. 49. <br>The Cleveland Museum of Art, 20th Anniversary Exhibition (26 June-4 October, 1936), p. 29, no. 48.<br>Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, The World of the Romantic Artist: A Survey of American Culture from 1800 to 1875 (28 December, 1944-28 January, 1945), no. 5, ill. p. 8; cat. p. 8-10. <br>Saginaw, Michigan, The Saginaw Museum, An Exhibition of American Paintings from Colonial Times until Today (10 January-15 February, 1948), p. 22, illus. no. 57, plate III. <br>The Art Institute of Chicago, From Colony to Nation: An Exhibition of American Painting Silver and Architecture from 1650 to the War of 1812 (21 April-19 June, 1949), p. 73, cat. no. 117. <br>New York, The National Academy of Design, A Century and a Half of American Art (10 October-16 November, 1975), p. 118, illus. p. 117. <br>Washington D.C., The National Portrait Gallery, Mr. Sully, Portrait Painter (3 June-5 September, 1983), p. 59, cat. no. 18, illus. p. 58. <br>Milwaukee Art Museum, WI (10/11/2013 - 1/5/2014) and San Antonio Museum of Art, TX (2/7/20114 - 5/11/2014): "Thomas Sully: Painted Performance", cat. no. 9, p. 104.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 205 Federal American
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