English, Continental & American Fine Art, Furniture and Decorations
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Oil on canvas, 1826, signed with initials 'TS' and dated upper right, with various labels on the reverse, lined. 30 x 25 in., 37 x 32 in. (frame). According to Thomas Sully's Register of Portraits, Sully painted eight portraits of Guy Bryan between 1825 and 1832. The 1832 portrait is in the collection of the New York Historical Society.Literature: Edward Biddle and Mantle Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully, p. 110.Provenance: Collection of Williams A.M. Burden.