Thomas Storm
When the portrait entered the Museum's collection, the sitter was thought to be Thomas Storm, whose family settled the town of Stormville, New York. It is unlikely, however, that the Thomas Storm (1748–1833) who founded the merchant firm of Thomas Storm and Son is the sitter, as he was in his eighties at the time this portrait was painted. The sitter may be one of several Thomas Storms, as the family settled throughout East Fishkill and Hopewell, New York. Thomas I. Storm (1766–1847), a cousin of the merchant and a farmer in Fishkill, would have been in his sixties, as is the sitter, at the time of the portrait's completion. The pose, dark palette and lack of modeling, all devices Phillips used early in his career, suggest the work may be a copy of an earlier portrait of the merchant Thomas Storm.
Artwork Details
- Title: Thomas Storm
- Artist: Ammi Phillips (1788–1865)
- Date: ca. 1830
- Culture: American
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 32 x 26 in. (81.3 x 66 cm)
- Credit Line: Bequest of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1979
- Object Number: 1980.360.1
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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