Pennsylvania. 1778 - 1860
Portrait, historical genre, and animal painting, lithography
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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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Massachusetts, Maine / Europe. 1824 - 1906
Portrait, genre-figure, and landscape painting
Massachusetts, Rhode Island / England. 1755 - 1828
Portrait painting, some genre-figure
District Of Columbia, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts / Europe. 1793 - 1856
Landscape and some marine painting, graphics, illustration
New York, Connecticut. 1816 - 1872
Landscape and coastal scene painting, engravings
Ohio, New York. 1822 - 1900
Wilderness landscape painting, often allegorical
New York, Connecticut / Canada, France. 1873 - 1939
Landscape, floral, genre and nocturne painting
New York, Pennsylvania. 1876 - 1953
Urban genre painting, illustration, mural, scenic design
New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio. 1853 - 1902
Landscape and portrait painting, illustrator
New York. 1823 - 1900
Autumnal landscape and allegorical painting, botanics
New York, Massachusetts. 1859 - 1935
Flag parades, figure and interior scene painting, etchings
New York. 1835 - 1886
Coastal views, marine and landscape painting
New York. 1866 - 1933
Urban genre and portrait painting, illustration
New York, Massachusetts / Scotland. 1825 - 1894
Landscape and some marine-coastal painting
New York, Connecticut. 1852 - 1919
Impressionist landscape, portrait, and still life painting
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island. 1833 - 1905
Marine-seascape, landscape and botanic painting
New Jersey, New York, Ohio. 1820 - 1910
Landscape, portrait, marine, and genre painting
Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut / France. 1870 - 1938
Genre, figure, landscape and still-life painting
Massachusetts / United Kingdom, Italy. 1856 - 1925
Portrait, figure, landscape and mural painting
New York, South Carolina. 1841 - 1919
Idealized genre, sea-landscape and portrait painting
New York, Ohio. 1836 - 1892
Tonalist landscape and genre painting
New York, Ohio. 1882 - 1925
Genre, portrait, and street-landscape painting
Massachusetts, New York / France. 1858 - 1924
Modernist genre-crowds, landscape and still life painting
Pennsylvania / Germany. 1815 - 1872
Sumptuous still life
Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania. 1865 - 1929
Portrait and social realist genre painting, teaching
Massachusetts, New York. 1823 - 1880
Landscape, marine, and portrait painting-luminism
Massachusetts, New Hampshire. 1862 - 1938
Upper-class female figure and portrait painting
Pennsylvania / United Kingdom, England. 1738 - 1820
History, allegorical, religious and portrait paintings
Maryland, Pennsylvania. 1741 - 1827
Portrait, figure and historical genre painting
New York / Italy. 1836 - 1923
Allegory, landscape, figure and fantasy painting
New York, California. 1831 - 1913
Juvenile-other figure and genre and landscape painting
Pennsylvania, New York. 1848 - 1892
Trompe l'oeil still life painting, hanging game