Mary Abigail Willing Coale
1809
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 73.2 × 60.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-131670
Thomas Sully painted Abigail Willing Coale with rosy cheeks, an alluring gaze, and supple white skin, which he accentuated with the low neckline of her gown. The artist painted her in a fur wrap that captures the color of her luminous gray-green eyes and softens the transition from the figure to the background. Sully, a skilled and successful portrait painter, wrote that “From long experience I k…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, George Buchanan Coale Collection
Registry history
- 1809 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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