Object Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Charles Izard Manigault |
Artist |
Sully, Thomas |
Date |
1817 |
Medium |
oil |
Support |
canvas |
Dimensions |
34 1/2 x 26 3/8 inches |
Signature |
Sully, pinxit 1817 |
Signature Location |
verso |
Inscription |
NA |
Credit line |
Bequest of Fannie Marie and Rawlins Lowndes Cottenet |
Accession Number |
1956.004.0023 |
Collection |
Painting |
Exhibition Status |
Currently on view |
Sitter's dates |
1789-1874 |
Description |
Manigault became one of America's most noted early art collectors. Through inheritance and purchase, he amassed one of the finest portrait collections in America and gained a reputation as a confident connoisseur. His first major purchase was the portrait of his grandparents, Ralph and Alice Delancey Izard, by John Singleton Copley. Commissioned while in Rome in 1775, the double portrait was painted soon after Copley met the Izards in Naples. The painting, now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, remains the quintessential Grand Tour image and for Charles Manigault it held iconic status. Early in his life Manigault traveled to the Far East where his fortune as a merchant had its ups and downs. Returning to Charleston by circumnavigating the globe, he settled into the life of a rice planter and made his fortune. Thomas Sully painted this portrait just before Manigault's departure in 1817. As if to commemorate his impending voyage, Sully has depicted Manigault onboard a ship with stormy clouds and sea in the background. |
Subjects |
Manigault Figures Portraits Clothing & dress man Water |
Image |
004\1956.04.23.JPG |