JOHN BREWSTER, JR. (CT/ME, 1766-1854) - Portrait of Rev. Dr. Paul Coffin, Pastor of Buxton, Maine; oil on canvas, unsigned, in black molded frame with gold liner. OS: 33" x 28", SS: 29" x 24". Cleaned, restored and relined, with a repaired long Y-shaped tear from upper left down his jaw inside the ear, across his mouth and up into upper right background, with a branch down into his shoulder on left. Rev. Coffin (1738-1821), was the Pastor of Buxton for 57 years. Originally from Newbury, Mass., he graduated from Harvard in 1759, married Mary Gorham, daughter of famed ship's master Capt. Nathaniel Gorham of Charlestown, Mass. in 1763, was ordained in Buxton, York County, District of Maine in 1763 as Preacher of the Congregationalist Church (then called Church of Christ). He and Mary had 14 children. They are buried at Tory Hill Cemetery in Lower Buxton Corners. Brewster, son of a doctor, was born in Hampton, Conn. in 1766, and was a deaf-mute. He moved with his brother Royal to Maine in 1795, as an itinerant painter he charged $15 a portrait. He bought 80 acres in Buxton in 1833, had stopped painting in 1817 to learn sign language. He died in 1854, is buried in the same cemetery as Dr. Coffin.

Regarding the provenance of Lot 600:: According to the consignors family genealogy, this painting was given by Rev. Coffin to the Woodman Family and stayed in that family until it was consigned.