William Carey Poland, Robert Feke, the Early Newport Portrait Painter, and the Beginnings of Colonial Painting (1907)

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William Carey Poland, Robert Feke, the Early Newport Portrait Painter, and the Beginnings of Colonial Painting (1907)
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book
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1907
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pp. 14, 25
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https://archive.org/details/robertfekeearlyn00pola
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Read in the archive.org full text (October 2026; The Long Island Quaker families of the Frost line).

  • The painter's descent (p. 14): "This John Feake, also called 'Feaks,' was a prominent Friend. He married Elisabeth Prior, and one of their children was Robert Feeks, who married Clemence Ludlam, and he became a Baptist minister at Oyster Bay, Long Island. This Robert and his wife Clemence were the parents of Robert Feke, the painter."
  • Dr. Alexander Hamilton at Newport, 16 July 1744 (p. 25, quoting Hamilton's Itinerarium): "He carried me to one Feake, a painter, the most extraordinary genius ever I knew, for he does pictures tolerably well by the force of genius, having never had any teaching."
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  2. title: "William Carey Poland, Robert Feke, the Early Newport Portrait Painter, and the Beginnings of Colonial Painting (1907)"
  3. type: book
  4. date: "1907"
  5. reference: "pp. 14, 25"
  6. url: "https://archive.org/details/robertfekeearlyn00pola"
  7. seen: transcript
  8. access: public
  9. ---
  11. Read in the archive.org full text (October 2026; `research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md`).
  13. - **The painter's descent (p. 14):** "This John Feake, also called 'Feaks,' was a prominent Friend. He
  14. married Elisabeth Prior, and one of their children was Robert Feeks, who married Clemence Ludlam,
  15. and he became a Baptist minister at Oyster Bay, Long Island. This Robert and his wife Clemence were
  16. the parents of Robert Feke, the painter."
  17. - **Dr. Alexander Hamilton at Newport, 16 July 1744 (p. 25, quoting *Hamilton's Itinerarium*):** "He
  18. carried me to one Feake, a painter, the most extraordinary genius ever I knew, for he does pictures
  19. tolerably well by the force of genius, having never had any teaching."
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