Product code: Thomas Sully Portrait store Color Lithograph
Portraits of U.S. Army Officers: Sully: Biddle "Major Biddle." Screen print of a Thomas Sully portrait of John Biddle (1792-1859). Chicago: B.A.P. Company (Borin Art Products), circa 1935. Thomas Sully created an oil on canvas of John Biddle in 1818. The sitter was one of many Philadelphians who hired this famous portraitist, and this officer was a member of the prestigious Biddle family from the famous Andalusia estate on the Delaware River. John Biddle served in the War of 1812 on the Niagara Frontier with General Winfield Scott. From 1817 to 1828 he served as mayor of Detroit and in 1835 worked on the Michigan State Constitution. Active in forming the two states of Michigan and Wisconsin in their constitutional beginnings, Biddle was also powerful working with railroads, banking and education, as an early trustee of the University of Michigan. Borin Art Products Company (1932-1942) was known store for making framed period art reproductions that duplicated the artist work.
Portraits of U.S. Army Officers: Sully: Biddle "Major Biddle." Screen print of a Thomas Sully portrait of John Biddle (1792-1859). Chicago: B.A.P. Company (Borin Art Products), circa 1935. Thomas Sully created an oil on canvas of John Biddle in 1818. The sitter was one of many Philadelphians who hired this famous portraitist, and this officer was a member of the prestigious Biddle family from the famous Andalusia estate on the Delaware River. John Biddle served in the War of 1812 on the Niagara Frontier with General Winfield Scott. From 1817 to 1828 he served as mayor of Detroit and in 1835 worked on the Michigan State Constitution. Active in forming the two states of Michigan and Wisconsin in their constitutional beginnings, Biddle was also powerful working with railroads, banking and education, as an early trustee of the University of Michigan. Borin Art Products Company (1932-1942) was known store for making framed period art reproductions that duplicated the artist work.