Portrait #101

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Jones, Edward
  • Artist:Sully (?)
  • Date Created:ca. 1820
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:8.5 x 7.75
  • Image Dimensions:4 x 3.25
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  • Materials/Media:oil on ivory
  • Date Documented:7/17/2003
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Waist-length three-quarter right profile miniature of a an older man in a black, double-breasted overcoat, tan vest, and white necktie. His silver hair is parted in the middle, and he is surrounded by a soft blue and pink background suggestive of the sky. The work is framed under glass.
  • History:Artist may be Sully, of New York, who was also a Charleson, SC miniaturist.
  • Notes:Subject was born 1754 and died 1829. He is the owner's great-great-great-grandfather.