$5,040
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts
Auction: November 15, 2022 12:00 PM EDT
Bearing preparer's stencil verso, "Prepared By J. Fox N. York," oil on canvas, framed.
29 1/2 in. x 24 in. (sight)Provenance
Property of a New Jersey collection.
Note
Thomas Sully traveled to Monticello to paint the retired Jefferson in 1821. This portrait appears to have been copied after the portrait now in the collection of the American Philosophical Society, considered "the final portrait of Thomas Jefferson painted directly from life." See American Philosophical Society webpage, "A Final Image: The Thomas Sully Portrait of Thomas Jefferson," and Biddle, Edward and Fielding, Mantle, The Life & Works of Thomas Sully (1783-1872), Charleston (Garnier & Company: 1969), pg. 191, no. 914.