Live Auction 2136Christie's Interiors
Attributed to Thomas Sully (American, 1783-1872)
Lot 169 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF SIR JOHN R. H. AND LADY THOURON, REMOVED FROM HISTORIC DOE RUN FARM, A DU PONT LEGACY
(LOTS 140-173)

Attributed to Thomas Sully (American, 1783-1872)

Portrait of Robert Maskell Patterson, President of the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia

Closed10 February 2009

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USD 1,625

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Attributed to Thomas Sully (American, 1783-1872)
Portrait of Robert Maskell Patterson, President of the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia
with inscription (on the relined reverse)
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)

Specialist note

The inscription on the reverse of the relined canvas is most likely a transcript of an inscription by the artist, indentifying the sitter and indicating that the present lot is a posthumous portrait painted in 1866, after a portrait by S.J. De Bois.