1869
Type Oil on canvas
Dimensions 187.3 cm x 141.3 cm
cyf
31935
John Tyler
mk77
1859
Oil on canvas
62x47 1/8in
26266
The Peacemakers
mk48
1868
Oil on canvas
47 1/8x62 5/8in
White House Historical Association
49353
The Peacemakers
mk195
1868
Oil on canvas
47x62
George P.A.Healy
American Painter, 1813-1894
American painter, active also in Europe. At the age of 17 he set up a studio in Boston after receiving encouragement from Thomas Sully, who was painting portraits there. Despite his youth and lack of training, he presented himself to the society figure Mrs Harrison Gray Otis and asked if he might paint her portrait (untraced); she agreed and later sponsored Healy's first trip abroad. In 1834 he entered the studio of Antoine-Jean Gros; the French master's suicide the following year ended Healy's only sustained period of artistic study. In Gros's studio he first encountered Thomas Couture, but they did not meet again until the next decade
