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Robert Feke
- American portrait artist born to Robert Feke, a Baptist Minister and Blacksmith who lived
in Oyster Bay, Long Island, in the colony of New York c. 1707
- Worked as a Surveyor in Oyster Bay from 1725 - 1730
- Learned the techniques of painting in New York City
- Moved to Newport, Rhode Island, in 1741
- Married Eleanor Cozzens, daughter of Newport, Rhode Islands prominent tailor, Leonard
Cozzens in 1742
- Moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1746
- Moved to Newport and Boston, Massachusetts, in 1748
- Moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1749 - 1750
- Last seen at his brother-in-laws wedding in Newport on 26 August, 1751
- May have gone to Barbados where members of the Feke family resided, but there are no
records of either activity or death there
National Portrait Gallery
Pamela Andrews
by Robert Feke 1741
(Rhode Island School of Design Museum)
Charles Apthorp
by Robert Feke 1748
(Cleveland Museum of Art)
Robert Auchmuty II
by Robert Feke 1748
(Mead Art Museum at Amherst College)
John Banister
by Robert Feke 1748
(Toledo Museum of Art)
James Bowdoin II
by Robert Feke 1748
(Bowdoin College Museum of Art)
William Bowdoin
by Robert Feke 1741
(Private Collection)
John Channing
by Robert Feke c. 1748 - 1749
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Thomas Fayerweather
by Robert Feke c. 1750
(Historic New England)
Self Portrait
by Robert Feke c. 1741 - 1745
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Mrs. Ebenezer Flagg of Newport, Rhode Island (Mary Ward - Daughter of Governor Ward)
by Robert Feke c. 1749
(Redwood Library and Athenaeum)
Hannah Flagg
by Robert Feke c. 1742 - 1743
(Northeast Auctions)
James Flagg
by Robert Feke c. 1742 - 1743
(Northeast Auctions)
Benjamin Franklin
by Robert Feke c. 1746
(Harvard University Art Museums)
The Reverend Thomas Hiscox, Pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist Congregation in Westerly, Rhode Island
by Robert Feke 1745
(Redwood Library and Athenaem)
Margaret McCall
by Robert Feke 1749
(Frick Art Reference Library)
Edward Shippen IV
by Robert Feke 1750
(Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Isaac Stelle
by Robert Feke c. 1749 - 1750
(Newport Historical Society)
Portrait of a Lady
by Robert Feke c. 1748
(The Brooklyn Museum)
Portrait of a Lady
Attributed to Robert Feke
(Northeast Auctions)
Oxenbridge Thacher
In the Manner of Robert Feke 1748
(Yale University Art Gallery)
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