Wilton Symposium: Thomas Sully and Early Republic Richmond
In celebration of Wilton House Museum’s Most Recent Acquisition
February 6, 2015
One of the nineteenth-century’s greatest portrait
painters, Thomas Sully (1783 – 1871) spent three
formative years in Richmond receiving commissions
from some of the Old Dominion’s most prominent
citizens such as Governor Peyton Randolph (1779 –
1828), until a romance with his sister-in-law forced the
artist to leave the state. Noted speakers from across
the country will present a cross-disciplinary
exploration of the artist and his times and recreate the
journey one canvas took from Richmond to
Tinseltown and back again.
Symposium fees include the presentations, coffee, boxed
lunch, and optional tour of Wilton House Museum.
Thomas Sully, Portrait of Peyton Randolph, Wilton House Museum Collection
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Wilton Symposium: Thomas Sully and Early Republic Richmond
PROGRAM:
8:30 Registration and Coffee
9:15 Welcome, Keith D MacKay, Executive Director, Wilton House Museum
9:30 Thomas Sully’s Painted Performance, William Rudolph
Coffee Break
11:00 Setting the Presidential Model: Thomas Sully’s Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, Craig Reynolds
Lunch
1:00 Miraculously Saved: The Richmond Theater Fire of 1811 and the Transformation of
Virginia’s Capital City, Meredith Henne Baker
2:00 The British Aspects of William Randolph Hearst’s Activities as a Collector Mary Levkoff
Coffee Break
3:30 Sully, Unsullied, Scott Nolley
Conclusion, Keith D MacKay
Optional Tours of Wilton House Museum
SPEAKERS:
Meredith Henne Baker— Author of The Richmond Theater Fire: Early America’s First Great Disaster.
Mary Levkoff— Hearst Castle Museum Director.
Scott Nolley— Founder of Fine Art Conservation of Virginia.
Craig A. Reynolds— PhD Candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University.
William Keyse Rudolph— Chief Curator of the San Antonio Museum of Art.
Questions?
Contact Keith D MacKay
[email protected]
804-282-5936 Ext. 2
Wilton House Museum
215 South Wilton Road
Richmond, Virginia 23226
www.wiltonhousemuseum.org