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    Mrs. Klapp (Anna Milnor)
    Thomas Sully. Mrs. Klapp (Anna Milnor), 1814. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001214

    Mrs. Klapp (Anna Milnor)

    by Thomas Sully

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Commissioned from the artist by Dr. Joseph Klapp (1783–1843), Philadelphia, PA, husband of the sitter, along with his own portrait (1950.1363), begun June 3, 1814, and delivered September 23, 1814 [Thomas Sully papers, 1792–1871, reel N18, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, copies in curatorial object file]; by descent to his son Dr. William Henry Klapp (1817–1855), 1843; by descent to his son Dr. William H. Klapp (1849 or 1850–1924), Philadelphia, PA; by descent to his nephew Langdon Williams (1861 or 1862–1949), Philadelphia, PA, and Brookline, MA, by 1924. Richard C. Morrison, Concord, MA, by 1950; sold to M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1950; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Three Centuries of American Art, Apr. 11–Oct. 10, 1976, Darrel Sewell and Page Talbot, cat. no. 190, ill. p. 232.

    Publications

    Charles Henry Hart, “Thomas Sully’s Register of Portraits, 1801–1871,” Part I, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 33 (1909), 65. no. 957. –––––. A Register of Portraits Painted by Thomas Sully, 1801–1871 (Philadelphia, 1909), 98, no. 957. Edward Biddle and Mantle Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully (1783–1872) (Wickersham Press, 1921), 200, no. 992. "Recent Purchases and Gifts," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 44, no. 4 (Nov. 15, 1950): 62–74 (ill.), as Portrait of Mrs. Joseph Klapp (Anna B. Milnor). David A. Hanks, “American Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques (September 1973), 415, ill. p. 416. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1970, 286, ill. p. 263. Milo M. Naeve, Classical Presence in American Art (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), 23, ill., no. 28. –––––. “The Classical Presence in American Art,” The Magazine Antiques, September 1978, 502, ill. Chicago Historical Society,” The Collections,” Chicago History, 8, 1 (Spring 1979), 34–36, 34, ill.

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Thomas Sully (American, born England, 1783–1872)
    Date
    1814
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    92.1 × 71.5 cm (36 1/4 × 28 1/8 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Place
    Philadelphia
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    Purchased with funds provided by Annie Swan Coburn to the Mr. and Mrs. Lewis L. Coburn Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1950.1362

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