Thomas Sully
Fielding Lucas, Jr.
1807
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Sight: 28 5/8 x 23 3/4 in. (72.7 x 60.3 cm) Framed: 38 x 32 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (96.5 x 83.2 x 9.5 cm)
Credit Line
Group of Friends Purchase Fund
Object Number
1935.29.1
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1935; Edward Lucas White, Baltimore, subject's grandson; to his daughter, Ethel White, from whom the painting was purchased
The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, "A Baltimorean in Paris: George A. Lucas, Art Agent 1860-1909," Jan. 28 - Mar. 11, 1979.
BMA, Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting in Maryland, May 11-June 17, 1945, p. 42, no. 91, ill. p. 43; Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, The Classical Spirit in American Portraiture, Feb. 6-29, 1976, p. 50, no. 17, ill.; BMA, Maryland Heritage, Apr. 20-June 20, 1976, p. 95, no. 69, ill.; Dorinda Evans, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., Benjamin West and His American Students, Oct. 16, 1980-Jan. 4, 1981, p. 15s, ill. p. 15o, fig. 120 (circulated to PAFA, Philadelphia)
Sona Johnston, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "A View Toward Paris: The Lucas Collection of 19th-Century French Art," October 1, 2006 - December 31, 2006.
BMA, Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting in Maryland, May 11-June 17, 1945, p. 42, no. 91, ill. p. 43; Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, The Classical Spirit in American Portraiture, Feb. 6-29, 1976, p. 50, no. 17, ill.; BMA, Maryland Heritage, Apr. 20-June 20, 1976, p. 95, no. 69, ill.; Dorinda Evans, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., Benjamin West and His American Students, Oct. 16, 1980-Jan. 4, 1981, p. 15s, ill. p. 15o, fig. 120 (circulated to PAFA, Philadelphia)
Sona Johnston, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "A View Toward Paris: The Lucas Collection of 19th-Century French Art," October 1, 2006 - December 31, 2006.
Wendy A. Cooper. "Classical Taste in America 1800-1840". Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art; New York: Abbeville Press, 1993, page 96.
Douglas L. Frost, "Making History / Making Art / MICA," Baltimore: MICA, 2010, p. 16, ill.
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 08
