A Register of Portraits Painted by Thomas Sully Arranged and Edited: With an Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Register of Portraits Painted by Thomas Sully Arranged and Edited: With an Introduction and NotesThomas Sully did for posterity that, for which many other artists would have received the blessings of posterity had they done. He kept a register of his work day by day, noting the name of the subject, the size of the canvas, the dates when each was begun and when finished, for whom painted and his price for the same. At the end of each year he added up the total number of his works during the year and their total value; and as his artistic career covered the span of three score and ten, he has recorded the painting of 2520 pictures, of a value of $240,744.00, or an average of 36 paintings a year, of an average annual value of $3525.00, a very comfortable income for the greater part of his life, during the period he lived.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.