Peter Conn

Thomas Sully's Philadelphians

Painting the Athens of America

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Produktbeschreibung

"In the course of a career that reached across more than six decades, Sully painted over two thousand portraits and was one of America's most prominent painters. This book describes and discusses several of Sully's portraits as history painting that documents the history of Philadelphia in the first half of the nineteenth century"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781606180495
• ISBN-10: 1606180495
• Artikelnr.: 71164210

Autorenporträt

Peter Conn

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. A Brief Biography
3. Pennsylvania Hospital
Samuel Coates
Benjamin Rush
4. The Second Bank of the United States
Nicholas Biddle
5. The Theater
George Frederick Cooke
Fanny Kemble
Charlotte Cushman
6. The Library Company of Philadelphia
Zachariah Poulson
7. The Jews of Philadelphia
Rebecca Gratz
8. The American Philosophical Society
John Vaughan
Peter Stephen Du Ponceau
9. Lafayette Returns to Philadelphia
10. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
William Rawle
11. Natural History
William Wagner
William Maclure
12. The University of Pennsylvania
John Andrews
13. The Debate over Slavery
William Henry Furness
Benjamin Coates
Daniel Bashiel Warner and Edward Roye
14. Epilogue: Thomas Sully and His Critics
Jonathan Williams
George Mifflin Dallas
Bibliography
Index