$77,025
Attributed to Thomas Sully (1783-1872) Portrait of Mary Sophia Carroll (Bayard) of Baltimore, 1822. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, the bust portrait is inscribed on the reverse, "Mrs. Bayard, Daughter of Charles Carroll of Homewood...Portrait by Thomas Sully," according to Biddle and Fielding's transcription of Sully's Register, no. 83, 31 x 26 in., in original giltwood frame. Condition: Minor restoration. Provenance: Mary Sophia's father Charles Carroll was the son of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Her mother was Harriet Chew Carroll, daughter of Chief Justice Samuel Chew of Philadelphia. Mary Sophia married Richard Henry Bayard in 1820. He was a distinguished lawyer in Maryland, mayor of Wilmington, Delaware, his birthplace, and from 1840 to 1845, he was in the United States Senate. In between his terms as senator, he served as Chief Justice of Delaware. Subsequently, he became charge d'affairs to Belgium from 1850 to 1853. Direct descent to the consignor as follows: Oswald Jackson, son of Isaac Rand and Louisa Catherine Carroll, who married Ella M. Willing. Their daughter Louisa Carroll Jackson married John Metcalfe Thomas of New York City in 1899. Their son Charles Carroll Thomas married Miriam Smith of New Haven in 1926. Their children Elizabeth Thomas Sweitzer, Charles Carroll Thomas, Jr., and Cathleen Brooke Thomas to Louisa Carroll Jackson Thomas to the consignor. Exhibitions: "Anywhere So Long as There be Freedom: C Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2008-02-17
