Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee

1812 - 1897

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The head and shoulders of a man with light skin and gray hair nearly fills this vertical portrait painting. Shown against a peanut-brown background, the man’s shoulders are angled to our left, and he looks off to our right with blue eyes. His gray hair curls around his forehead and over his ears. His bushy gray eyebrows gather over a furrowed brow, and sideburns grow down past his earlobes. His long, straight, slightly hooked nose and high cheekbones are set into his long, oval-shaped face. His pink lips are closed over a rounded chin, which is framed by vertical wrinkles. The white edge of a collar peeks above the high neck of a velvety black garment with wide lapels. The area beneath the man’s shoulders is a dark ivory color, perhaps indicating that this painting is unfinished.
Thomas Sully, Andrew Jackson, 1845, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1942.8.34

Andrew Jackson

Thomas Sully · 1845 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.8.34