# Portrait of Mary Sicard David

- By: Thomas Sully (American, born England, 1783–1872)
- Date: 1813
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Framed: 121.9 x 103.5 x 15.3 cm (48 x 40 3/4 x 6 in.); Unframed: 89.5 x 69.8 cm (35 1/4 x 27 1/2 in.)
- Culture: United States
- Credit line: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1979.2)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1916.1979.2/1916.1979.2_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Thomas Sully's working motto was "flattery—nothing so sure of success as flattering your portraits."