Daniel+La+Motte

Date: 1812-1813
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1983/1983.76_1a.jpg?itok=pem4y18L width="251" height="311" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/daniel-la-motte-23479"]] || Title: **Daniel La Motte**

Artist: **Thomas Sully** Born: Horncastle, England 1783 Died: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1872

Medium: oil on canvas mounted on wood Dimensions: 36 3/8 x 29 in. (92.3 x 73.8 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand La Motte III

Accession: 1983.76 || Famed portraitist Thomas Sully presents Baltimore merchant Daniel La Motte as a contemplative romantic figure, casually lounging with disheveled hair. His sumptuously detailed clothes, in the style of English fashion leader Beau Brummel, indicate La Motte's status and prosperity. The lush landscape seen through the window represents his holdings on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and establishes him as a gentleman landowner as well.
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