is the great-grandfather of Ella Deloria, the noted Yankton Dakota ethnologist and writer; the great-grandfather of artist Mary Sully (also known as Susan Mabel Deloria, 1896–1963); and the great-great-grandfather of Vine Deloria, Jr., Standing Rock Dakota scholar and author of Custer Died For Your Sins (1969), an American Indian civil-rights manifesto. Sully was a great-uncle of Thomas Sully (1855–1939), the New Orleans-based architect. Charles Henry Lanneau of South Carolina was his student; he became a portrait painter and Civil War artist. The World War II Liberty Ship was named in his honor. Gallery of works References Further reading Murray, P. & L. (1996). Dictionary of Art and Artists. Penguin Books. . Carrie Rebora Barratt, Queen Victoria and Thomas Sully. Exhibition catalogue. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. External links The Winterthur Library Overview of the archival collection on Thomas Sully. "Washington's Crossing as Docudrama", Wall Street Journal, Retrieved 03/19/2001 "Thomas Sully (1783–1872) and Queen Victoria". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1783 births 1872 deaths 19th-century American painters 19th-century American male artists American male painters American portrait painters English portrait painters People from Horncastle, Lincolnshire British emigrants to the United States Artists from Philadelphia Burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia) Coin designers