Addison Gallery of American Art
Phillips Academy
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Andover, MA 01810-4166
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1783 Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England - 1872 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Known for: Portrait, historical, and landscape painting.
A teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Thomas Sully became one of the foremost early 19th-century portrait painters, known for painting pretty faces on his subjects, often... Read full biography
A teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Thomas Sully became one of the foremost early 19th-century portrait painters, known for painting pretty faces on his subjects, often disregarding reality. He was the son of English actors and was born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire. He came to... Read full biography
A teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Thomas Sully became one of the foremost early 19th-century portrait painters, known for painting pretty faces on his subjects, often disregarding reality. He was the son of English actors and was born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire. He came to Philadelphia in 1792 when he was nine years old. Sully showed early drawing talent and first studied with his older brother, Lawrence, a miniature painter. To earn money, he tried unsuccessfully to have... Read full biography
A teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Thomas Sully became one of the foremost early 19th-century portrait painters, known for painting pretty faces on his subjects, often disregarding reality. He was the son of English actors and was born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire. He came to Philadelphia in 1792 when he was nine years old. Sully showed early drawing talent and first studied with his older brother, Lawrence, a miniature painter. To earn money, he tried unsuccessfully to have a career in insurance but then turned full time to painting and was able to be critiqued by Gilbert Stuart in Boston. He embraced Stuart's interest in classical styles, but favored pretty colors and opaque and glossy surfaces. Like Stuart, his... Read full biography
A teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Thomas Sully became one of the foremost early 19th-century portrait painters, known for painting pretty faces on his subjects, often disregarding reality. He was the son of English actors and was born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire. He came to Philadelphia in 1792 when he was nine years old. Sully showed early drawing talent and first studied with his older brother, Lawrence, a miniature painter. To earn money, he tried unsuccessfully to have a career in insurance but then turned full time to painting and was able to be critiqued by Gilbert Stuart in Boston. He embraced Stuart's interest in classical styles, but favored pretty colors and opaque and glossy surfaces. Like Stuart, his subjects appear heroic and seem to have a sense of purpose. In 1801, he moved with Lawrence's family to Virginia, but... Read full biography
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About Thomas Sully: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (81)
All MuseumsArt Institute of Chicago, AIC
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603-6110Boston Athenaeum
10 1/2 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108Butler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080Chrysler Museum of Art
245 West Olney Road
Norfolk, VA 23510Columbia Museum of Art
Main At Hampton
Po Box 2068
Columbia, SC 29202Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
480 East Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43215-3886Crocker Art Museum
216 O Street
Sacramento, CA 95814Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens
829 Riverside Avenue
Jacksonville, FL 32204Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201Delaware Art Museum
2301 Kentmere Parkway
Wilmington, DE 19806Denver Art Museum
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway
Denver, CO 80204Everson Museum Of Art
401 Harrison Street
Community Plaza
Syracuse, NY 13202Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Box 466
Rockland, ME 04841-0466Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, FAMSF
50 Hagiwara
Tea Garden Drive-Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118Fisher Museum of Art, University of Southern California
823 Exposition Boulevard
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0292Florence Museum
558 Spruce Street
Florence, SC 29501Fogg Art Museum: Harvard University Art Museums
Harvard University
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138Gibbes Museum of Art
135 Meeting Street
Charleston, SC 29401Greenville County Museum of Art
420 College Street
Greenville, SC 29601Helmerich Cntr. for American Research, Gilcrease Museum,Univ. of Tulsa
1400 N. Gilcrease Museum Road
Tulsa, OK 74127-2100High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30309Hill-Stead Museum
35 Mountain Road
Farmington, CT 06032Hunter Museum of American Art
10 Bluff View
Chattanooga, TN 37403Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Two Palace Road
Boston, MA 02115Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
5th Avenue At 7th Street
PO Box 1108
Laurel, MS 39441Longwood Center for the Visual Arts
129 North Main Street
Farmville, VA 23901Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
University of Miami
1301 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146Maryland Historical Society
201 West Monument Street
Balti.Orgmore, MD 21201-4674McNay Art Museum
6000 North New Braunfels Avenue
San Antonio, TX 78209-0069Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
Amherst College
Po Box 5000
Amherst, MA 01002Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
1934 Poplar Avenue, Overton Park
Memphis, TN 38104-2765Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404Mint Museum of Art
2730 Randolph Road
Charlotte, NC 28207-2031Montclair Art Museum
3 South Mountain Avenue
Montclair, NJ 07042-1747Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
North Campus Drive
Box 23300
Provo, UT 84602-1400Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
750 Ninth Street NW, Suite 410
Washington, DC 20001New Orleans Museum of Art
One Collins Diboll Circle, City Park
P.O. Box 19123
New Orleans, LA 70124New-York Historical Society
2 West 77th Street At Central Park
New York City, NY 10024Newfields
4000 Michigan Road
Indianapolis, IN 46208-4196North Carolina Museum of Art
2110 Blue Ridge Road
Mail To 4630 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-4630Old Capitol Museum of Mississippi History
100 South State Street
Jackson, MS 39201Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives
Po Box 7646
Philadelphia, PA 19101Portland Museum of Art (PMA)
7 Congress Square
Portland, ME 04101R W Norton Art Gallery
4747 Creswell Ave.
Shreveport, LA 71106Reading Public Museum
500 Museum Road
Reading, PA 19611-1425Red Hill--The Patrick Henry National Memorial
1250 Red Hill Road
Brookneal, VA 24528Redwood Library and Athenaeum
50 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, RI 02840Reynolda House-Museum of American Art
Museum of American Art
Po Box 11765
Winston-Salem, NC 27116San Diego Museum of Art
Balboa Park, 1450 el Prado
Po 122107
San Diego, CA 92101Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101-2476Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (SAMA)
Altoona Facility (Brett Building)
1210 11th Ave
Altoona, PA 16601Springfield Museum of Art
107 Cliff Park Road
Springfield, OH 45501Telfair Museum of Art
Po Box 10081
Savannah, GA 31412The Art Museum, Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1018The Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-1797The Columbus Museum (COMU)
1251 Wynnton Road
Columbus, GA 31906The Dayton Art Institute
456 Belmonte Park North
Dayton, OH 45405The Johnson Collection
100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203
Spartanburg, SC 29306The Library Company of Philadelphia
1314 Locust St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107-5698The Masonic Library And Museum Of Pennsylvania
One North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107The Museum Of Arts And Sciences
1040 Museum Boulevard
Daytona Beach, FL 32114The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102The Toledo Museum of Art
2445 Monroe Street
Box 1013
Toledo, OH 43697The Walters Art Museum
600 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201-5185Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
600 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103-2990Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
401 Museum Drive
Hagerstown, MD 21741-0423West Point Museum
2110 New South Post Road
West Point, NY 10996White House Historical Association (WHHA)
740 Jackson Place NW,
Washington, DC 20006Winterthur Museum, Garden,& Library
Route 52 Kennett Pike
Winterthur, DE 19735Worcester Art Museum
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609-3196Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271