# Study for "Portrait of James Cornell Biddle," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

- By: Thomas Sully (1783 – 1872)
- Date: 1841
- Medium: Brush and oil paint on paperboard
- Classification: Portraits
- Dimensions: 43.7 × 27.6 cm (17 3/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
- Culture: USA
- Credit line: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/49383)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/a0fb062660c92374e593d2c831d47ddb.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Three-quarter length portrait of a male figure, seated in an armchair, facing the spectator. A book is held in his left hand, a finger in the volume, marking a place.