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        <h1>Robert Feke (1707-1752)</h1>
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">We Perform Robert Feke art authentication. <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/appraisal/painting-appraisal.php">Robert Feke appraisal</a> from . <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication/certificate-of-authenticity.php">Robert Feke certificates of authenticity (COA)</a>.  Robert Feke analysis, <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication/provenance-research.php">research</a>, <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication/scientific-tests.php">scientific tests</a>, <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication.php">full art authentications</a>. We will help you sell your Robert Feke or we will sell it for you.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/feke/Feke_PortraitOfBrigadeerGeneralSamuelWaldo.jpg" alt="Portrait of Brigadier General Samuel Waldo 1750"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Portrait of Brigadier General Samuel Waldo 1750</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Robert Feke was one of the earliest American portrait painters, who left behind 50 known portraits and could possibly be credited with many more. He was active between 1741 and 1751, and traveled all over New England to paint important and wealthy Colonial American families. Feke is considered by some art historians to be “the first American-born painter of note.”</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/feke/Feke_Williambowdoin.jpg" alt="William Bowdoin" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">William Bowdoin</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Feke was born in Long Island, New York, and essentially taught himself to paint in the rococo style. It is said that as a young man, he was taken prisoner and sent to Spain, and while in prison, he bided his time by drawing. It is said that the sale of these drawings helped Feke to fund his passage home. The whereabouts of these drawings today are unknown, and could be virtually anywhere from Europe to the United States. However, the details of Feke’s life before he began actively painting in 1741 are sketchy, making it possible that his tale of being in a Spanish prison is more myth than fact.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/feke/Feke_MrsIsaacWinslow.jpg" alt="Mrs. Isaac Winslow" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Mrs. Isaac Winslow</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Once Feke presumably returned to America, he settled in Newport, Rhode Island. He was influenced by fellow American painter John Smibert, and adopted a very personal style of portrait painting. Feke became known for the elegance and charm he brought to his sitters, and was commissioned to create portraits in Rhode Island, Boston, Philadelphia and New York. Feke even painted the portrait of future great American Benjamin Franklin.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/feke/Feke_YoungBenjaminFranklin1748.jpg" alt="Young Benjamin Franklin 1748"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Young Benjamin Franklin 1748</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">One of Feke’s most famous paintings was “The Isaac Royall Family” painted in 1741, and now housed at Harvard College.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/feke/Feke_IsaacRoyallFamily.jpg" alt="Isaac Royall Family 1741"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Isaac Royall Family 1741</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Some accounts have claimed that there are perhaps only a dozen or more paintings that are genuinely by Feke, and that there are upwards of 60 portraits merely attributed to him. It is also said that a painting previously thought to have been by Feke’s idol, John Smibert, was in fact painted by Feke. While the two did paint in a similar fashion, Feke was known for his great skill at painting textured fabrics in his portraits, and would be a sure sign to art historians if they were trying to distinguish Smibert from Feke. Feke’s paintings are also very formulaic in nature, and have beautiful depth of color.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/feke/Feke_ThomasHopkinson.jpg" alt="Thomas Hopkinson"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Thomas Hopkinson</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">It is said that Feke disappeared at sea, as he was also a notable mariner, likely often traveling between America and Europe. Some speculate that he died in either Barbados or Bermuda, but again, mystery surrounds one of America’s first painters, even in death.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/feke/Feke_PortraitOfAWoman.jpg" alt="Portrait of a Woman"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Portrait of a Woman</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Today his paintings are housed all over New England in college libraries and other public buildings, and perhaps in your own home. Some of Feke’s work is even housed in Bermuda, and could also possibly be in Europe, unknown and otherwise unauthenticated. Still wondering about that portrait hanging in your family’s estate? <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/contact/contact1.php">Contact us</a>…it could be by Robert Feke.</p>
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