Robert Feke : colonial portrait painter /
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| Author / Creator: | Foote, Henry Wilder, 1875-1964. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1930. ©1930. |
| Description: | x pages, 2 unnumbered leaves, pages [xiii]-xix, 223 pages, 34 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (including frontispiece), portraits, facsimile, folded genealogical table ; 26 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3038051 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Life of Robert Feke. The beginnings of art in the colonies ; Ancestry and boyhood ; Early manhood, 1725-1740--Visits to New York and Philadelphia ; The first Boston visit, summer of 1741 ; Marriage and settlement in Newport, 1742-1745 ; The second Philadelphia visit, 1746 ; The second Boston visit, 1748-1749 ; Latest work in Newport, 1749-1750 ; The third Philadelphia visit, spring of 1750 ; Disappearance and death ; Feke's place as an artist ; Appendices. (Correspondence in Dawson's historical magazine ; Pedigree of Robert Feke, with notes on Henry Feake and on the Feake family of Barbados)
- Catalogue of portraits. Descriptive catalogue ; Notes on other pictures by Feke or attributed to him ; Chronological list of extant portraits ; Present location of portraits.