A Register of Portraits Painted By Thomas Sully Arranged and Edited, With an Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)

TstTN rT sV rs rT strx rtrS KAJ rJ9AA pJBA fJBALA tJ9mj THOMAS SULLYS REGISTER OF PORTRAITS Thomas Sully did for posterity that, for which many other artists would have received the blessings of posterity had they done. He kept a register of his work day by day, noting the name of the subject, the size of the canvas, the dates when each was begun and when finished, for whom painted and his price for the same. At the end of each year he added up the total number of his works during the year and their total value; and as his artistic career covered the span of three score and ten, he has recorded the painting of 2520 pictures, of a value of $246,744.00, or an average of 36 paintings a year, of an average annual value of $3525.00, a very comfortable income for the greater part of his life, during the period he lived. But these figures do not show precisely the entire number of his works, for, difficult as it is to understand His first entry isM ay 10, 1801. Began miniature of Chester Siilly, inN orfolk, Va., being mj first attempt from life, forM aryL ee ;and his last entry, January 26, 1872. Copy of Michael Angelo sfrom a print.
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