Fine Paintings and Sculpture

382
Thomas Sully (American, 1783-1872)

Portrait of Ellen Shepherd Brooks (Mrs.
Gorham Brooks)
Monogrammed and dated “TS.1831.” c.r.,
identified on a loan label from the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts on the reverse.
Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm),
framed.
Condition: Canvas mounted to cradled
Masonite panel, minor retouch, fine stable
craquelure, scattered scuffs to background,
surface accretions.

Literature: Edward Biddle and Mantle Fielding,

The Life and Works of Thomas Sully (1783-

1872) (Philadelphia: Wickersham Press, 1921),

entry #203, p. 107.

Provenance: By descent within the family of

the sitter.

N.B. Ellen Brooks’s father, R.D. Shepherd,

was a ship-owner from Massachusetts. In

1834 he commissioned a vessel to be built in

Medford and christened it after his daughter.

A painting of the ship Ellen Brooks, attributed

to Samuel Walters, is offered in this auction as

Lot 359.

$7,000-9,000

64 Additional information and photos at http://www.skinnerinc.com