Description:
Attributed to Thomas Sully (America and England, 1783-1872)
Portrait of Susannah Linzee Inman Livingston (1784-1825). Unsigned. Oil on canvas, the subject seated and shown half-length, wearing an orange dress with a red shawl over one shoulder, 30 x 25 in., in a molded frame. Condition: Retouch, craquelure, heavily varnished.
Note: Susannah Linzee Inman was born in Pennsylvania and married Thomas Ferguson Livingston. Together they had twelve children. This portrait is reportedly the one listed in Charles Henry Hart's Register of Works by Thomas Sully, 1801-1871, as number 1060, "Miss Livingston of New York" (p. 107).
Estimate $6,000-9,000
spots and areas of retouch, concentrated in the lower right quadrant, but elsewhere, too - including a quarter-sized spot near the subject's temple. frame repainted gold.
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