- Artist
- Thomas Sully
- Year
- 1813
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 89.5 × 70.5 cm (35 1/4 × 27 3/4 in.)
A young woman in a high-waisted white gown and blue shawl gazes past the viewer with a quiet, confident expression. Thomas Sully — the leading American portraitist of the Federal era, celebrated for his fluid, idealising style — paints Jean Terford David with the warm, soft-lit elegance that made him the favoured painter of the young republic.