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Definition of Thomas Sully
1. Noun. United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thomas Sully
Literary usage of Thomas Sully
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh, Richard Holland Johnston (1905)
"Jefferson at Seventy-eight Photogravure from the Original Painting by Thomas
Sully, owned by the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia. ..."
2. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1904)
"TO Thomas Sully. MONTICELLO, January 8, 1812. SIR,—I have duly received your
favor of December 22d, informing me that the society of artists of the United ..."
3. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh (1905)
"TO Thomas Sully. MONTICELLO, January 8, 1812. SIR,—I have duly received your
favor of December 22d, informing me that the society of artists of the United ..."
4. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson, Albert Ellery Bergh (1907)
"TO Thomas Sully. MONTICELLO, January 8, 1812. SIR,—I have duly received your
favor of December 22d, informing me that the society of artists of the United ..."
5. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States by William Dunlap, Frank William Bayley, Charles Eliot Goodspeed (1918)
"Of Mr. Bush all I can say is, that finding there was an artist of this name, I
wrote to my never-failing source of information, Thomas Sully, ..."
6. The Story of American Painting: The Evolution of Painting in America from by Charles Henry Caffin (1907)
"... Thomas Sully >-V American authoress, titter of tlis painter, Charles Robert
Leslie, RA _^J In the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, ..."
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