Robert (Feake) Feke
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Robert (Feake) Feke (abt. 1705 - abt. 1750)

Robert Feke formerly Feake
Born about in Oyster Bay, Queens, Province of New Yorkmap
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Husband of — married 23 Sep 1742 (to about 1750) in Newport, Rhode Islandmap
[children unknown]
Died about at about age 45 in Bermudamap [uncertain]
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Biography

Robert Feake was born in 1705 in Oyster Bay, Queens, Province of New York], the oldest of four known children and three sons of Robert and Clemence Ludlam Feake.

"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." In total, about 60 paintings by Feke survive, twelve of which are signed and dated"[1]

Robert was married to Eleanor Cozzens/Cousins on Sep 23, 1742[2]

In about 1750,[3] when he was in his mid-forties, he died in Bermuda of unknown causes.

Robert may have been involved with the Quaker Movement, as he is noted as being involved in a Quaker Wedding for Friends John Townsend and Philadelphia Fiske.[4]

Some of his most famous paintings:

Benjamin Franklin [5]
Portrait of a Woman [6]
Susannah Boutineau [7]

Citations

  1. Robert Feke on Wikipedia
  2. "Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F8KG-NBQ), Robert Feke and Eleanor Cozzens, 23 Sep 1742; citing Newport,Newport,Rhode Island, reference ; FHL microfilm 908,270.
  3. Wikidata
  4. "Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F8KB-3RW ), Robert in entry for John Townsend and Philadelphia Fiske, 15 Oct 1767; citing Society Of Friends,Newport,Newport,Rhode Island, reference ; FHL microfilm 22,488.
  5. Wikimedia Commons, circa 1748, currently on display at Harvard Art Museum
  6. Wikimedia Commons, circa 1748, currently on display at Brooklyn Museum
  7. Wikimedia Commons, circa 1748, currently on display at Nova Scotia Museum

Acknowledgments

Sources

  • "Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F8KG-NBQ), Robert Feke and Eleanor Cozzens, 23 Sep 1742; citing Newport,Newport,Rhode Island, reference ; FHL microfilm 908,270.




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