id: 96263 accession number: 1916.1979.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1979.1 updated: 2025-02-08 22:24:42.245000 Portrait of Jean Terford David, 1813. Thomas Sully (American, 1783–1872). Oil on canvas; framed: 122 x 103 x 10 cm (48 1/16 x 40 9/16 x 3 15/16 in.); unframed: 89.5 x 70.5 cm (35 1/4 x 27 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1916.1979.1 title: Portrait of Jean Terford David title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1813 creation date earliest: 1813 creation date latest: 1813 current location: 205 Federal American creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: America technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Thomas Sully (American, 1783–1872) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 122 x 103 x 10 cm (48 1/16 x 40 9/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 89.5 x 70.5 cm (35 1/4 x 27 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: "TS 1813 [TS in monogram]" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Inaugural Exhibition opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00 Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). title: A Century and a Half of American Art opening date: 1975-10-15T04:00:00 A Century and a Half of American Art. National Academy of Design Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York, NY (organizer) (October 15-November 30, 1975). title: Thomas Sully: Painted Performance opening date: 2013-10-11T00:00:00 Thomas Sully: Painted Performance. Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (organizer) (October 11, 2013-January 5, 2014); San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX (February 7-May 11, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition (6 June-20 September, 1916), no. 156.', 'opening_date': '1916-06-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition of Portraits by Thomas Sully (1922), pp. 5-7, cat. no. 71, illus. p. 49.', 'opening_date': '1922-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art, 20th Anniversary Exhibition (26 June-4 October, 1936), p. 29, no. 48.', 'opening_date': '1936-06-26T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, The World of the Romantic Artist: A Survey of American Culture from 1800 to 1875 (28 December, 1944-28 January, 1945), no. 5, ill. p. 8; cat. p. 8-10.', 'opening_date': '1944-12-28T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Saginaw, Michigan, The Saginaw Museum, An Exhibition of American Paintings from Colonial Times until Today (10 January-15 February, 1948), p. 22, illus. no. 57, plate III.', 'opening_date': '1948-01-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Art Institute of Chicago, From Colony to Nation: An Exhibition of American Painting Silver and Architecture from 1650 to the War of 1812 (21 April-19 June, 1949), p. 73, cat. no. 117.', 'opening_date': '1949-04-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, The National Academy of Design, A Century and a Half of American Art (10 October-16 November, 1975), p. 118, illus. p. 117.', 'opening_date': '1975-10-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Washington D.C., The National Portrait Gallery, Mr. Sully, Portrait Painter (3 June-5 September, 1983), p. 59, cat. no. 18, illus. p. 58.', 'opening_date': '1983-06-03T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Milwaukee Art Museum, WI (10/11/2013 - 1/5/2014) and San Antonio Museum of Art, TX (2/7/20114 - 5/11/2014): "Thomas Sully: Painted Performance", cat. no. 9, p. 104.', 'opening_date': '2011-02-07T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Family of the sitter; John Foster Jenkins, Yonkers, NY; The Cleveland Museum of Art (1916) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 96264 Portrait of Mary Sicard David, 1813. Thomas Sully (American, 1783–1872). Oil on canvas; framed: 121.9 x 103.5 x 15.3 cm (48 x 40 3/4 x 6 in.); unframed: 89.5 x 69.8 cm (35 1/4 x 27 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1916.1979.2 relationship: --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. page number: Reproduced: p. 9 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n11 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. page number: Reproduced: p. 9 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n13 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 534 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n98 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 161 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n185 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 161 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n185 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 200 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n220 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1979.1/1916.1979.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1979.1/1916.1979.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1979.1/1916.1979.1_full.tif