Portraits of Mathematicians
Thomas Sully painted portraits of Jefferson,
Monroe, Swift, and Jonathan Williams.
Alfred
Sully, son of the painter, described how these paintings were saved
in the fire of 1838.
Individuals Portrayed:
Albert E.
Church. Portrait is in the check out room of the library.
Charles Davies. Portrait in the Department of Mathematical Sciences.
Sylvanus Thayer. There is an 1831 portrait by Sully at Dartmouth. Copy
at USMA. Robert W. Weir painted two portraits. See Pappas, To The Point,
pp. 209-210.
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