The Old Print Shop

Robert Feke

fl 1741-50

Portrait painter. One of the best of the colonial limners. Feke is thought to have been born between 1705 and 1710 at Oyster Bay, Long Island. Of his early career nothing certain is known. By 1741 he was an established portrait painter in Boston. In 1742 he was married in Newport, Rhode Island where he made his home until 1750.

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