Thomas Sully
Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Sands (née Henrietta Mariah French, died 1893)
1839
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Thomas Sully
Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Sands (née Henrietta Mariah French, died 1893)
1839
Physical Qualities
Oil on board, Unframed: 23 7/8 x 19 7/8 in. (60.6 x 50.5 cm) Framed: 35 x 30 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. (88.9 x 77.5 x 8.3 cm) Sight: 23 1/4 x 19 in. (59.1 x 48.3 cm)
Credit Line
Anonymous Gift
Object Number
1941.192
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1941; private collection, New York; by descent in the Sands family
Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon
Sona K. Johnston, "American Paintings 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1983, p. 156, ill. p. 156.
Charles Henry Hart, ed., "A Register of Portraits Painted by Thomas Sully, 1801-1871," Philadelphia, 1909, p. 145, no. 1474; Edward Biddle and Mantle Fielding, "the Life and Works of Thomas Sully (1783-1872)," Philadelphia: Wickersham Press, 1921, p. 267, no. 1544.
Inscribed: RECTO: Lower left "TS 1840"
