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

Read in the archive.org full text (October 2026; research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md).

• 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.”