Thomas Sully, 1821 - Portrait of the Artist - fine art print

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The English-born Philadelphian Thomas Sully painted this self-portrait for his host in Baltimore, Maryland, the broker Henry Robinson. The artist is shown interrupted at his work, with the primary tool of his profession pointed at his sharply lit head. This paintbrush device is common in artists’ self-portraits, and Sully is thought to have adapted it from a similar work by Benjamin West, with whom he had studied in London. Although Sully’s brushwork is unusually restrained here, its painterly quickness blends with the engaging spontaneity of the pose to create a sense of immediacy.

In 1821 the American artist Thomas Sully made the painting Portrait of the Artist. The over 190 year-old original was made with the size: 17 1/8 x 14 in (43,5 x 35,6 cm). Oil on canvas was applied by the painter as the medium of the piece of art. It is included in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's art collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. This work of art, which is in the public domain is supplied with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Rosa C. Stanfield, in memory of her father, Henry Robinson, 1894. The creditline of the artwork is the following: Gift of Mrs. Rosa C. Stanfield, in memory of her father, Henry Robinson, 1894. What is more, the alignment is in portrait format with a ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Thomas Sully was a painter of American nationality, whose art style can primarily be assigned to Romanticism. The American painter lived for a total of 89 years and was born in 1783 in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom and passed away in 1872 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, United States.

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