Thomas Sully’s Philadelphians: Painting the Athens of America

$39.95 at Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Featuring nearly forty full-color reproductions of Thomas Sully’s portraits, and drawing upon previously unpublished archival material, Thomas Sully’s Philadelphians brings to life the people who participated in the history of early-nineteenth-century Philadelphia, the most cosmopolitan and most racially embattled city in America. Philadelphia’s early national history represented in Thomas Sully’s portraits Thomas Sully is widely regarded as perhaps the most important portrait painter of the antebellum years…