Lot Details
Lot 1133
Thomas Sully
American, 1783-1872
Portrait of Commodore James Biddle, 1839
Inscribed TS and dated 1839 on the reverse, evidently transcribed from the original canvas
Oil on canvas
29 3/4 x 24 7/8 inches
Provenance:
Nicholas Biddle, the sitter's brother
Judge Craig Biddle
Mrs. Thomas Fraser Dixon
Mrs. Clement Reeves Wainwright
Nicholas B. Wainwright, thence by descent through the family
Exhibited:
Philadelphia, PA, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Memorial Exhibition of Portraits by Thomas Sully, 1922
New York, Duveen Brothers, Loan Exhibition of Soldiers and Sailors in American Wars, 1945
Literature:
Edward Biddle and Mantle Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully, Wickersham Press, Philadelphia, 1921, p. 99, cat. no. 132
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition of the Portraits by Thomas Sully, 1922, p. 68, illus. no. 97
C The Christine Biddle Wainwright Collection
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