Lady with a Harp: Eliza Ridgely (1818)
Thomas Sully
Oil on Canvas. American, Realist.
American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II [M-Z]
When Thomas Sully painted fifteen-year-old Eliza Ridgely in the spring of 1818, he was widely regarded as America's leading artist. Particularly noted for his graceful images of women, he was a natura…