Studio: international art (84.1922)

STUDIO-TALK

PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WILLIAMS
CHAPMAN. BY THOMAS SULLY

(Owned by G. Chapman Thayer, Esq.)

youthful Queen ascending the throne is
still owned by the Society. It was done in
London from life, and in Sully's diary
many delightful bits of personal comment
on the Queen do honour to her amiability
and understanding, a 0 a a
Sully's stay in Europe, on his two trips,
did not total more than nine months, but
he learned in that time what the modern
student takes years to master, for he was a
man of great industry. When he died in
his ninety-fourth year he had done over
2,600 pictures. Among his sitters were
Presidents Jefferson, Monroe, and Jackson;
the Marquis of Lafayette and Patrick

Henry; famous generals and sea-captains ;
actors, actresses, society matrons, surgeons,
in fact, the whole gamut of America's
fashionable life for half a century. a
Sully is buried in Laurel Hill, Phila-
delphia. During his life he was admired
not only as a great artist, but also as a
fellow citizen. At one time it was proposed
to widen a street near Independence Hall.
When it was discovered that this would
necessitate the destruction of Sully's dwell-
ing, a house given him by Stephen Girard,
the City Council at once repealed the
ordinance and Sully lived there unmolested
for the rest of his life. E. Longstreth.

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