Miss Martha Levy at the Spinet

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Artist Thomas Sully (American, 1783–1872)

Title Miss Martha Levy at the Spinet

Date 1810

Medium Oil on panel

Dimensions Framed: 30 1/4 × 25 1/4 × 5 1/2 in. (76.8 × 64.1 × 14 cm)
Support: 23 1/16 x 18 in. (58.6 x 45.7 cm)

Credit Line Morton and Marie Bradley Memorial Collection, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 92.196

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Martha Levy descended on her father’s side from Moses Raphael Levy, a prominent member of the tiny Jewish community in late seventeenth-century New York. Martha's mother was Protestant and she was raised as an Episcopalian, reflecting the high rate of intermarriage and conversion among Jews in early American society. Her father, Moses Levy, a Philadelphia judge, commissioned this portrait from Thomas Sully, the foremost American portraitist of the era. Sully had just returned from London, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and mastered the fluid, elegant style cultivated by British portraitists.

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