Thomas Sully's Philadelphians: Painting the Athens of America

by Peter Conn

Philadelphia's early national history represented in Thomas Sully's portraits

Thomas Sully is widely regarded as perhaps the most important portrait painter of the antebellum years. Using those portraits, Thomas Sully's Philadelphians: Painting the Athens of America reconstructs many of the people, institutions, and events that combined to make Philadelphia, from the Revolution until the 1840s, at once the most cosmopolitan...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606180495
• ISBN13: 9781606180495
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 216 Pages