Robert Feke
Paintings
Portrait of a Woman
Portrait of Mrs. Samuel McCall Sr.
Susannah Speakman Inman. Mrs Ralph Inman
Thomas Hopkinson
Portrait of Mrs Tench Francis
Family portrait of Isaac Royall
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Portrait of Mrs. Samuel McCall Sr.
Robert Feke (c. 1705 or 1707 – c. 1752) was an American portrait painter born in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. According to art historian Richard Saunders, "Feke’s impact on the development of Colonial painting was substantial, and his pictures set a new standard by which the work of the next generation of aspiring Colonial artists was judged."[1] In total, about 60 paintings by Feke survive, twelve of which are signed and dated.[1]
Life and career
Little is known for certain about his life, particularly his early years. Only one work by Feke, a portrait of a child, is datable before 1741.[1] In that year he moved to Boston, where he painted Family of Isaac Royall (1741), a group portrait which borrows its composition from John Smibert’s The Bermuda Group (1729).[1] Feke's works also show the influence of John Wollaston.
From 1741 until 1750, Feke worked in Boston, Newport, Rhode Island, and Philadelphia, painting wealthy merchants and landowners.[2] The latest record of his activities is August 26, 1751;[1] suggestions by Feke's early biographers that he died in Barbadoes or Bermuda have not been substantiated.[1]
Feke's paintings are known for their sobriety and uniformity, but also for their rich colours and painterly boldness.
Works
Benjamin Franklin, Portrait (c. 1746) at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Portrait Collection
Charles Apthorp, Portrait 1748, oil on canvas, Cleveland Museum of Art American
Grizzell Eastwick Apthorp, Portrait (Mrs. Charles Apthorp) (1748) at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Mrs. John Banister, 1748, oil on canvas, The Detroit Institute of Arts
William Bowdoin
John Channing, about 1747-49, oil on canvas 127 x 102, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Mary Channing (Mrs. John Channing), about 1747-49, oil on canvas 127 x 102, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Tench Francis (Sr.), Portrait at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Captain Alexander Graydon, c. 1746, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art American Museum of Fine Arts
Thomas Hopkinson, Portrait at the Smithsonian Institution
Ralph Inman
Isaac Royall
Edward Shippen, Portrait of Chief Justice, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Isaac Winslow, about 1748, Oil on canvas 127 x 102, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Notes
Saunders, Richard H. "Robert Feke". Oxford Art Online. Retrieved July 15, 2012
Myron & Sundell 1969, p. 30
References
Biography at infoplease.com
Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Feke, Robert". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
Myron, Robert, and Abner Sundell. (1969). Art in America from colonial days through the nineteenth century. London: Crowell-Collier Press.
National Museum of American Art (U.S.), & Kloss, W. (1985). Treasures from the National Museum of American Art. Washington: National Museum of American Art. ISBN 0874745950
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