A few posts ago, I wrote that there were no known paintings of Captain John Gwinn of the USS Constitution. While looking up more information on him, I came across a source that said paintings of him and his wife Caroline had been up for auction on November 21, 2020.
They had an estimated price of between $20,000 and $30,000 and auctioneers were Wooten & Wooten. The one of Capt. Gwinn was made in 1839 and his wife's a few years later.
Thomas Sully painted them. He was a famous artist living in Philadelphia who painted such subjects as Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams and Marquis de Lafayette. Born in England in 1783 and emigrated with his family to Charleston, S.C., in 1792.
Another of his subjects was Britain's Queen Victoria. His Adams portrait hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Two of his Jefferson portraits are at the University of Virginia and at West Point.
--Brock-Perry
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