Charles Apthorp
1748
Robert Feke
Robert Feke (American, c. 1707–c. 1752)
American Painting and Sculpture
Charles Apthorp, 1748. Robert Feke (American, c. 1707–c. 1752). Oil on canvas; framed: 141.5 x 117.5 x 7.5 cm (55 11/16 x 46 1/4 x 2 15/16 in.); unframed: 127 x 101.5 cm (50 x 39 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1919.1006 Much remains unknown regarding Robert Feke’s life, including his birth and death dates.
- Maker/Artist
- Feke, Robert
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 141.5 x 117.5 x 7.5 cm (55 11/16 x 46 1/4 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 127 x 101.5 cm (50 x 39 15/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed lower right: R F P/174[8]
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1919.1006
- Credit Line
- Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Exhibitions
- The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, 200th Birthday of the Apthorp Mansion, American Realists, Paul Revere's Boston, 1735 - 1818, Boston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1909-14.<br>Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition (26 June-4 October 1936) illus. cat. no. 26, plate II, listed p. 23.<br>Oberlin, Ohio, Allen Memorial Art Museum, The Arts in America in the Eighteenth Century (May, 1946), illus. cat. no. 5, p. 70, listed p. 68; see Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum (May, 1946) vol. 3, no. 3 for catalogue. <br>New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Robert Feke (8-30 October 1946); traveled to Huntington, Long, Island, Heckscher Art Museum (2-10 November 1946); to Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (27 November-22 December 1946) illus. cat. no. 2. <br>[Huntington, New York, Heckscher Art Museum, Robert Feke: Native Colonial Painter (2-10 November, 1946), they had their own, second catalogue; illus. p. 26. <br>Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Likeness of America: 1680-1820 (5 July-4 September 1949) illus. cat. no. 25, plate 7. <br>Palm Beach, Florida, Society of the Four Arts, Plymouth Rock to the Armory (9 February-5 March, 1950) cat. no. 3, not illus.<br>Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Two Hundred Years of American Painting (8 March-3 April 1955), illus. cat. no. 3, plate 3. <br>Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Rediscoveries in American Painting (3 October-6 November, 1955), cat. no. 38.<br>Akron, Akron Art Institute, American Portraits (23 February-18 March, 1956) <br>Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 200th Birthday Celebration of the Apthorp Mansion (17 October-5 November 1960) <br>Hamilton, Ontario, Art Gallery of Hamilton, American Realists: An Exhibition of American Paintings from the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (11 March-23 April 1961) illus. cat. no. 20. <br>Peoria, IL, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, 200 Years of American Painting (27 March-28 April 1965) <br>Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Paul Revere's Boston: 1735-1818 (18 April-21 October 1975) illus. cat. no. 44, p. 43 listed p. 220; also included pp. 27-57.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 204 Colonial American
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