Description
This print reproduces Thomas Sully’s painted portrait of Thomas Jefferson after the March 1821 sitting at Monticello. West Point, which Jefferson had established, commissioned a full-length. Sully stayed twelve days. He made a half-length life study, later finished in 1830 for William Short and now at the American Philosophical Society. The Academy’s full-length was completed in 1822. The shop file dates this listing 1823.
Jefferson, then seventy-eight, joked that Sully might find the journey illy bestowed on an ottamy of 78. Sully left Monticello with reluctance. This type is not the White House Collection Rembrandt Peale of 1800, and it is not Sully’s 1856 half-length replica in the U.S. Senate, sold separately here. The 1821 sitting is the life source for all three.
This listing is a contemporary print after the painting, not the original oil. Choose fine art paper, luster photo paper, or mounted canvas.
