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Sat, Apr 30, 2016 11:00AM EDT - Sun, May 1, 2016 11:00AM EDT
Lot 422

THOMAS SULLY (1783-1872): PORTRAIT OF GUY BRYAN

Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
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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.