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Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Brunk Auctions has been conducting sales of fine and decorative arts for over 30 years. Auctions are held in our North Carolina sale room but attracts a global audience. Founded by Robert Brunk in 1983, the auctions became well known for their integrity and profes...Read more
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Sep 11, 2021
(Pennsylvania, 1741-1827)
A Clergyman, said to be Dr. William Schaffer, minister, circa 1790, unsigned, oil on canvas, 36 x 27 in.; 18th century gilt wood frame, 42-3/4 x 33-1/2 in., Provenance: Hiram D. Rickert, Yardley, Pennsylvania; Eunice Chambers, Thomasville, South Carolina, 1962 (accompanied by correspondence); Property of Philip and Charlotte Hanes, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Brunk Auctions, March 10-11. 2012, lot 505; Property From a Franklin, Tennessee Historic Home ; Note: Exhibited: The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, loan of the month, June-July, 1967Literature: Sellers, Charles Coleman, Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale, Transactions of The American Philosophical Society, volume 42, 1952, illustrated p. 327, p. 257, Nos. 1026, 244.
restretched on new stretcher, lined, retouch at small points in face with most in background, collar and clothes affecting up to 20 percent of surface, crackle, areas of overcleaning, restoration by Paul Moro, Inc., New York, 1967, then by Charles H. Olin, Great Falls, Virginia, 1977 (with copy of conservation report); frame with some resurfacing
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