“The great-great-great grandson of the renowned nineteenth-century portraitist of the same name, Sully, a native of Norfolk, Virginia, has been a costume painter for the American Ballet Theater and the New York City Ballet as well as an illustrator for The New Yorker. Having moved from Charleston to New Orleans earlier this year, he has been sought after in the Crescent City (and the rest of the South) [as well as the Northeast] for his portrait miniatures of families and, occasionally, their pets. He has also undertaken a series of the strangest and most haunting of miniatures, the eye portrait.”
— excerpted from "The Intimate Art", by John Biguenet,
The Oxford American, Fall, 2005

“ I know some private persons who have little cases containing beautiful portraits by his hand, of sovereigns, of their friends, or of ladies whom they have loved.”
— Giorgio Vasari, mid-sixteenth century, on Giulio Clovio,
an early miniaturist

“ I love portrait miniatures for their intimacy. They sustain a current between the dead and the living, the absent and present, those separated by the vagaries of life and geography, or even the daily routine.”
— Thomas Sully, 2005

For more information and rates for portrait miniatures and full scale oil portraits, please contact tsully@thomassully.com