Rosalie Sully was a nineteenth century American painter who had a lesbian relationship with Charlotte Cushman.
10 Facts About Rosalie Sully
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Rosalie Sully was the daughter of painter, Thomas Sully, and Sarah Annis Sully.
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Rosalie Sully had three sisters: Jane Cooper Sully Darley, Blanche Sully, and Ellen Oldmixon Sully Wheeler as well as one brother, Alfred Sully.
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Rosalie Sully had two half-siblings, Mary Chester Sully Neagle and Thomas Wilcocks Sully, from her mother's previous marriage to her father's elder brother, Lawrence Sully.
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Rosalie Sully exhibited landscapes in New York in 1839, and painted several miniatures for actress Charlotte Cushman.
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Rosalie Sully's work was created in a small studio adjoining her father's larger studio.
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Rosalie Sully met Charlotte Cushman in the summer of 1843, while Cushman was getting her portrait painted by Rosalie's father.
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Cushman left in November 1844 on an English tour, which put a strain on the couple's relationship but did not end it, until Rosalie Sully found out that Cushman had started seeing someone else overseas.
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Rosalie Sully died from fever on July 8,1847 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Rosalie Sully is buried at the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia along with her father, mother and all but one of her siblings.