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George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894) was an American portrait painter. He studied in Paris and painted in the U.S. and Europe. His best known works were portraits of Daniel Webster, Longfellow, and a series of U.S. presidents. Collection contains correspondence, notes, family papers, photographs, and printed matter gathered by Thomas R. Hay for a biography of Healy written by Marie De Mare. Correspondence consists of letters concerning Healy's presidential portraits, photostats of letters by Healy, and family correspondence. Papers provide information on Healy's life, family and friends, location and date of portraits, and partial index of all his known paintings. Photographs are of Healy and sitters for his portraits. Also, clippings, pamphlets, and typescript pages for De Mare's biography. less

These papers of the painter Thomas Sully consist of three volumes. One is a register of paintings he executed between 1801 and 1871, which includes a complete list of all miniatures, oil portraits, and other paintings. Another is a journal of Sully's activities in 1792-1793 and 1799-1846, including paintings executed by him, financial affairs, visitors he received, calls made, trips to England and France (1837-1838), annual "review of concerns," valuations of work done, and a financial statement. The third volume is a transcript of Sully's "Hints for Pictures," 1809-1871, which describes techniques for painting portraits, ingredients for colors, care and preservation of paintings, criticisms of other artists and explanations of their paintings and techniques less