Colonel Samuel Boyer Davis

Artist Thomas Sully (1783 - 1872)

Date1819

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions86 x 60 in. (218.4 x 152.4 cm)
Framed: 96 3/4 x 70 13/16 x 4 5/8 in. (245.7 x 179.9 x 11.7 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2007.4

Signedl.r., in gray paint: TS. 1819.

Accession number 2007.4

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ProvenanceColonel Samuel Boyer Davis [1827-1885] (the sitter), until 1854; by descent to Sussex Delaware Davis (his grandson), Philadelphia, PA; to (David David, Philadelphia, PA); to (Hirsch & Adler Galleries, New York, NY), 1976; to Private Collection, New York, NY, 1986; to (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY), 2007; purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2007
Label TextThe state of Delaware commissioned this portrait of Colonel Samuel Boyer Davis to honor his defense of Delaware Bay in the War of 1812. Thomas Sully studied art in London and applied the prestige and heroism embodied in full-length English military portraiture to his American subjects.

El estado de Delaware encargó este retrato del Coronel Davis para honrar su defensa de la Bahía de Delaware en la Guerra de 1812. Thomas Sully estudió arte en Londres, y aplicó el prestigio y el heroísmo encapsulado en los retratos militares ingleses de cuerpo completo a sus sujetos estadounidenses.