William White letter and engravings, 1824, n.d.

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William White letter and engravings, 1824, n.d.

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Note dated February 15, 1828, from William White to the artist Thomas Sully asking to postpone a meeting, surrounded by three engravings, none of which derives from Sully's portrait of White. The first, a bust portrait of White in his episcopal vestments trimmed in the shape of an oval, also appeared unattributed in Bird Wilson's Memoir of the Life of William White (1839); the second, another bust portrait of an elderly White in his episcopal vestments, has the caption "Engraved by T.B. Welch from a drawing by J.B. Longacre"; and the third, a full-length portrait of an elderly White in street clothes, trimmed in an oval, is from an 1830 engraving by Albert Newsam.

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University of Pennsylvania Library

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University of Pennsylvania Library

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Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872

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Artist Thomas Sully was born in London, although his actor parents soon emigrated to the United States. A trip back to England to study painting expanded his horizons, and upon his return to the United States he developed a reputation as a first rate painter. He specialized in portraits, especially portraits of women, and painted full-length portraits of many public and private figures. He is perhaps most closely associated with his portrait of Queen Victoria and for his painting, Washington cro...

Welch, Thomas B., 1814-1874

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Longacre, James Barton, 1794-1869

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Artist and engraver. From the description of Diary of James Barton Longacre, 1825-1830. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71015152 ...

Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864

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Albert Newsam (1809-1864) was a deaf artist who was born in Steubenville, OH, and orphaned at an early age. Through devious means he was taken to Philadelphia where, by good fortune, he was admitted in 1820 to the recently established Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. Newsam had exhibited great talent as an artist while a young man, and became an apprentice with Philadelphia lithographer Col. Cephas G. Childs (1793-1871) in 1827, after which he became the principal artist with the ...

White, William, 1748-1836

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William White was the first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Philadelphia. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1828. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155887043 Chaplain of the Continental Congress, 1777-1789; chaplain of the U.S. Senate; bishop of Pennsylvania in 1788; influential in formation of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S. From the description of Autograph of Bishop White, n.d. (University of Virginia). World...