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File Name	shades_tsm_0006.tif
Creator	Shaver, Samuel (1816-1878)
Title	Portrait of Joseph Alexander Mabry, Jr.
Alternate Title	Mabry, Joseph Alexander, portrait
Date	circa 1862
Genre	Paintings
Material/Technique	oil on canvas
Description	Portrait of a middle aged man with reddish brown hair and side whiskers dressed in formal clothing, seated in a red chair, and posed against a column base to his left.
Historical note	Joseph Alexander Mabry, Jr. (1826-1882), a wealthy Knoxvillian who outfitted a Confederate regiment at the start of the Civil War, swore an oath of loyalty to the Union after federal troops occupied the city. Founder of the Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad, Mabry was first and foremost a businessman. He had substantial landholdings in and around Knoxville. His fashionable country house on the outskirts of the city's east side proved a strategic location. Mabry's Hill was fortified during the war and used by both sides. Artist Samuel Shaver moved to Knoxville in 1859. He is known to have painted portraits of a number of distinguished East Tennessee individuals. Here he portrays Mabry has a man of means in an iconic pose with the trappings of wealth.
Subject	Portraits; Businessmen
Theme	Taking Care of Business Visualizing the War Walking a Fine Line
Story	Perez Dickinson Samuel Bell Palmer Artists Overview
Tags	Railroads
Geographic Location	United States--Tennessee--Knoxville
Time period	1860-1869
Contributing Institution	Tennessee State Museum
Rights	Images reproduced on this website are intended for individual, educational use only. For research inquiries about specific objects or requests for high resolution images, contact the Tennessee State Museum.
Identifier	81.246.1 (Confed)
Type	Still image
Format	image/jp2
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Reference URL	http://content.mtsu.edu/u?/shades,125
Archival file	shades11/shades_tsm_0006.tif