About the Artwork
Dr. Edward Hudson
1810
Thomas Sully
1783-1872
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 29 × 23 3/4 inches (73.7 × 60.3 cm) Framed: 36 × 31 × 3 inches (91.4 × 78.7 × 7.6 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
City of Detroit Purchase
26.89
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
the sitter's grandson, Thomas A. Sutherland (San Diego, California, USA)
1926, an unidentified descendant. 1926, Gump's Gallery (San Francisco, California, USA). 1926, William Macbeth, Inc. (New York, New York, USA). 1926-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Biddle, E. and M. Fielding. The Life and Works of Thomas Sully. Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 21 and 181, no. 836-839.
Bulletin of the DIA, 8, 1 (1926): pp. 9-10 (ill.).
Art in America, 17, 267 (1929).
American 19th Century Painting. Exh. cat, Michigan State University Department of Art. East Lansing, 1966, no. 3 (ill.).
Myers, B.S., ed. Encyclopedia of Painting. New York, 1970, p. 464 (ill.).
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Thomas Sully, Dr. Edward Hudson, 1810, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 26.89.
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