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== Notes ==

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== References ==

*[http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0818412.html Biography at infoplease.com]
*{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Feke, Robert|year=1900}}
*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

== External links ==

*[http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/82989/rec/60 John Singleton Copley in America], a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Robert Feke (see index)

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| DATE OF BIRTH = c. 1705 or 1707
| PLACE OF BIRTH = , [[Long Island]], [[New York]]
| DATE OF DEATH = c. 1752
| PLACE OF DEATH = [[Barbadoes]], [[West Indies]]
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Feke, Robert}}
[[Category:1700s births]]
[[Category:1752 deaths]]
[[Category:American painters]]
[[Category:People from Oyster Bay, New York]]
[[Category:Artists from New York]]
[[Category:New York colonial people]]


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[[File:Brigadier General Samuel Waldo.jpg|thumb|Robert Feke, ''Portrait of Brigadier General [[Samuel Waldo]]'', ca. 1748–50, collection of the [[Bowdoin College Museum of Art]], Bowdoin College, [[Brunswick, Maine]]]]

'''Robert Feke''' (ca. 1705 or 1707 – ca. 1752) was an [[United States|American]] portrait painter born in [[Oyster Bay (town), New York|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."<ref name="Saunders" /> In total, about 60 paintings by Feke survive, twelve of which are signed and dated.<ref name="Saunders" />

==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.<ref name="Saunders">Saunders, Richard H. "Robert Feke". Oxford Art Online. Retrieved July 15, 2012</ref> 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).<ref name="Saunders" /> Feke's works also show the influence of [[John Wollaston (painter)|John Wollaston]].

From 1741 until 1750, Feke worked in Boston, [[Newport, Rhode Island]], and [[Philadelphia]], painting wealthy merchants and landowners.<ref name="Myron&Sundell30">Myron & Sundell 1969, p. 30</ref> The latest record of his activities is August 26, 1751;<ref name="Saunders" /> suggestions by Feke's early biographers that he died in [[Barbadoes]] or [[Bermuda]] have not been substantiated.<ref name="Saunders" />

Feke's paintings are known for their sobriety and uniformity, but also for their rich colours and painterly boldness.

==Works==
* [[Charles Apthorp]], [http://www.clevelandart.org/Explore/departmentWork.asp?display=&deptgroup=20&view=more&recNo=10 Portrait] 1748, oil on canvas, Cleveland Museum of Art American
* Grizzell Eastwick Apthorp, [http://search.famsf.org:8080/search.shtml?keywords=robert+feke Portrait] (Mrs. Charles Apthorp) (1748) at the [[Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco]]
* [http://www.dia.org/the_collection/overview/viewobject.asp?objectid=44847 Mrs. John Banister], 1748, oil on canvas, The Detroit Institute of Arts
* William Bowdoin
* [http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=33868 John Channing], about 1747-49, Oil on canvas 127 x 102, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
* [http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=33869 Mary Channing (Mrs. John Channing)], about 1747-49, Oil on canvas 127 x 102, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
* [[Tench Francis (Sr.)]], [http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=2&viewmode=1&item=34.153 Portrait] at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
* [http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=50406+0+none Captain Alexander Graydon], c. 1746, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art American Museum of Fine Arts
* [[Thomas Hopkinson]], [http://americanart.si.edu/search/search_artworks1.cfm?StartRow=1&ConID=1510&format=short Portrait]  at the [[Smithsonian Institution]]
* [[Ralph Inman]]
* Isaac Royall
*  [[Edward Shippen]], [http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/31969.html Portrait] of Chief Justice, at the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]]
* [http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=32847 Isaac Winslow], about 1748, Oil on canvas 127 x 102, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Robert Feke 001.jpg|''Family of [[Isaac Royall, Jr.]]'', 1741, [[Fogg Art Museum]], [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]
File:Bowdoin.jpg|''Portrait of [[William Bowdoin]]'', 1748
File:Mrs Charles Willing by Robert Feke 1746.jpg|''Mrs. Charles Willing'', 1746
File:Brooklyn Museum - Portrait of a Woman - Robert Feke - overall.jpg|''Portrait of a Woman'', ca. 1748
File:SusannahBoutineau.JPG|''Susannah Boutineau'' (1748), (mother-in-law of [[Michael Francklin]])
File:1748 Ralph Inman byRobertFeke Harvard.png|''[[Ralph Inman]]'', 1748
File:Tench Francis by Robert Feke.jpg|''[[Tench Francis, Sr.]]'', 1746, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
</gallery>

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

==References==
*[http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0818412.html Biography at infoplease.com]
*{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Feke, Robert|year=1900}}
*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

==External links==
*''[http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/82989/rec/60 John Singleton Copley in America],'' a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Robert Feke (see index)

{{Persondata 
| NAME              = Feke, Robert
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = American painter
| DATE OF BIRTH     = c. 1705 or 1707
| PLACE OF BIRTH    = <<link:0>>, [[Long Island]], [[New York]]
| DATE OF DEATH     = c. 1752
| PLACE OF DEATH    = [[Barbadoes]], [[West Indies]]
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Feke, Robert}}
[[Category:1700s births]]
[[Category:1752 deaths]]
[[Category:American painters]]
[[Category:People from Oyster Bay, New York]]
[[Category:Artists from New York]]
[[Category:New York colonial people]]

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