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I think Posey was his middle name. His father surname was Silva.
Silva is the most common surname in Portuguese speaking countries and also well known in Spanish countries. However in many cases lead us to Jewish ancestors, those expelled from Spain and Portugal (Sephardim Jews).
William Posey Silva was born in Savannah, and is well known the second settlers in Savannah Georgia were a group of Portuguese Jews. High probabilities he descended from one of them.
Short Biography
William Posey Silva was born in Savannah, Georgia on October 23, 1859. He was educated at the Catham Academy and studied engineering briefly at the University of Virginia. Upon the death of his father, he inherited a successful china and hardware business in Chattanooga. For about thirty years he worked as a prosperous merchant and was nearly fifty years old when he began his art career. In 1907 he retired fom the business and sailed for Paris to study at Académie Julian under Laurens and Royers, and with Chauncey Ryder. His first solo exhibition was held in Paris in 1909 at the Georges Petit Gallery; recognition came quickly and other exhibitions followed in Europe. After returning to the United States in 1910, he had several exhibitions throughout the South. Silva had studios in Washington, DC and Chatanooga, Tennessee until 1913 when he settled in Carmel, California. There he built a studio in the sand dunes off Carmelita Street and for 35 years was an important figure in the local art scene and produced many prize-winning landscapes. An Impressionist who was influenced by the works of Monet and Manet, he worked outdoors to capture bright, fleeting scenes of nature in broad, colorful swatches of paint. Silva died on February 10, 1948.
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