Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

John Myers

Artist Thomas Sully (American, 1783-1872)

CultureAmerican

Date1808

MediumOil on paper | Canvas

DimensionsOverall: 29 1/4 x 24 1/4 x 1/4 in. (74.3 x 61.6 x 0.6 cm)

Credit LineChrysler Museum of Art, Moses Myers House, Norfolk, Virginia. The Historic Houses are the property of the City of Norfolk and are operated by The Chrysler Museum.

Object numberM51.1.271

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, MMH, Drawing Room

DescriptionThis is an oil on paper portrait, mounted on canvas. It depicts John Myers from the waist up, looking right. Dark coat, white shirt, red drape in the left background.

ProvenanceDescended in the family to Barton Myers (1853-1927); Colonial House Corporation, 1931; City of Norfolk, 1951; Chrysler Museum of Art, 1997. Exhibition HistoryMyers House, Norfolk, Va., 1931--present. _Facing the New World: Jewish Portraits in Colonial and Federal America_, The Jewish Museum, New York, Sept. 21, 1997--Jan. 11, 1998, no. 71. Published ReferencesThomas Sully, "Account of Pictures," 1801-1872, Archives of American Art, microfilm, n.p. Sam Hays, Philadelphia, to John Myers, Norfolk, 3 April 1808, photocopy, Moses Myers Family Papers, Jean Outland Chrysler Library, Chrysler Museum of Art. Thomas Sully, "Journal," 17 April 1808, Archives of American Art, microfilm, n.p. _Handbook of the Myers House, 1792, Norfolk, Virginia_, The Norfolk Museum, 1960, n.p. Beth N. Rossheim, "Thomas Sully (1783-1872). Beginning Portraitist in Norfolk" (M.A. thesis, Old Dominion University, 1981), 51-5-4, fig. 4. _The Chrysler Museum: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Norfolk, Virginia_, (Norfolk: Chrysler Museum, 1982), 162. Richard Brilliant, _Facing the New World: Jewish Portraits in Colonial and Federal America_ exh. cat., The Jewish Museum, New York, 1997, Plate 11, 83--84, fig. 71.