# John Sergeant, in American colonial and Federal art

Thomas Sully painted this in 1811, aged 28. It is now at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

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## The work

- Date: 1811
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 82.5cm x 66cm (32 1/2" x 26"), Accurate
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NPG.84.179
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Thomas Sully](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/thomas-sully), American, 1783–1872

Sully was taken from England to America as a child by his actor parents and settled in Philadelphia in 1808. After brief study with Gilbert Stuart, he went to London, where he worked under Benjamin West and came under the influence of Thomas Lawrence.

7 works in the collection.

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