Oil on canvas, signed en verso lower right "Chas K Palmer / Painter Sept 1831", depicts an elderly gentleman said to be Nathaniel Dow, an early western Pennsylvania settler. The subject is shown holding a singular horn-handled walking stick. Painting housed in period, likely original, wooden frame. Dow's stick has fortunately survived as a companion to the painting in which it is depicted. A pewter disc affixed to the top of the handle is engraved "N Dow". LOA 39", lovely old patina throughout.

The Estate of the Late Dr. Chuck Alcorn, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

SS 30" x 24.5"; DOA 34" x 28.5"

$1,000 - 2,000