Lot 146: Portrait of David Shaver, by Samuel Shaver

Tennessee ca 1835 oil on canvas unsigned 26.75" x 23.5" David Shaver, Esq., built a log home in 1808 on his 300-acre plantation in Kingsport, Tenn., later the residence of Samuel B. Stuffle. Shaver's brother, Michael, was a Tennessee silversmith and his son, Samuel, was a portrait painter.

Moderate inpainting; light craquelure.

By descent to Miss Elva Goodhue, great-great granddaughter of Tennessee Silversmith Michael Shaver, to Samuel B. Stuffle, Kingsport, Tenn."