Mrs. Klapp (Anna Milnor)

1. Commissioned from the artist by Dr. Joseph Klapp (1783–1843), Philadelphia, PA, husband of the sitter, along with his own portrait (1950.1363), begun June 3, 1814, and delivered September 23, 1814 [Thomas Sully papers, 1792–1871, reel N18, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, copies in curatorial object file]; by descent to his son Dr. William Henry Klapp (1817–1855), 1843; by descent to his son Dr. William H. Klapp (1849 or 1850–1924), Philadelphia, PA; by descent to his nephew Langdon Williams (1861 or 1862–1949), Philadelphia, PA, and Brookline, MA, by 1924. Richard C. Morrison, Concord, MA, by 1950; sold to M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1950; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Three Centuries of American Art, Apr. 11–Oct. 10, 1976, Darrel Sewell and Page Talbot, cat. no. 190, ill. p. 232.

• Charles Henry Hart, “Thomas Sully’s Register of Portraits, 1801–1871,” Part I, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 33 (1909), 65. no. 957.
• –––––. A Register of Portraits Painted by Thomas Sully, 1801–1871 (Philadelphia, 1909), 98, no. 957.
• Edward Biddle and Mantle Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully (1783–1872) (Wickersham Press, 1921), 200, no. 992.
• "Recent Purchases and Gifts," <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 44, no. 4 (Nov. 15, 1950): 62–74 (ill.), as <em>Portrait of Mrs. Joseph Klapp (Anna B. Milnor)</em>.
• David A. Hanks, “American Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques (September 1973), 415, ill. p. 416.
• John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1970, 286, ill. p. 263.
• Milo M. Naeve, Classical Presence in American Art (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), 23, ill., no. 28.
• –––––. “The Classical Presence in American Art,” The Magazine Antiques, September 1978, 502, ill.
• Chicago Historical Society,” The Collections,” Chicago History, 8, 1 (Spring 1979), 34–36, 34, ill.

Dr. Joseph Klapp

Art Institute of Chicago

Mrs. George Lingen

Art Institute of Chicago

Patrick Henry

Art Institute of Chicago

Junius Brutus Booth

Art Institute of Chicago

Distant View of Niagara Falls

Art Institute of Chicago

Starry Night and the Astronauts

Art Institute of Chicago

A Friendly Warning

Art Institute of Chicago

Capture of the Tripoli by the Enterprise

Art Institute of Chicago

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