Lot 384
Attributed to Thomas Sully (American, 1783-1872), "A Young Woman in a Moment of Divine Inspiration", mid-19th c., oil on canvas, signed with monogram initials "T.S." en verso, 24 in. x 20 in., frame with artist plaque. Note: While such uplifted faces and upturned eyes have been a fixture of Sullys style since his early maturity (E. ONeill, 1822, Hist. Soc. Penna.), the closest dated parallels to this image are from the 1830s and 1840s: R.K. Sully, 1 39, Metropolitan Museum of Art, similarly initialed (eyes, hair, hand); M.C. Sully, 1842, private collection (hair, neck, shoulder); Juliet, 1843, Library Co. of Phila. (close analogy for hair); Girl with Books and Flowers, 1845, private collection, similarly initialed (similar non-portrait subject): for those parallels, see Penna. Acad. Fine Arts, Memorial Exhibition, 1922, nos. 98, 113; and M.H. Fabian, Mr. Sully, Portrait Painter, Washington, 1983, nos. 62, 65, 71. Since this may well be a later work, however, it probably relates most closely to the fancies, or non-portrait figural compositions, which predominated among the paintings of his last years: in addition to more than 2000 portraits and 65 miniatures, Sullys oeuvre includes some 550 paintings of such unspecific subjects.
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