Author: William Carey PolandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Colonial
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Robert Feke, the Early Newport Portrait Painter and the Beginnings of Colonial Painting
Author: William Carey PolandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Colonial
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Robert Feke, the Early Newport Portrait Painter and the Beginnings of Colonial Painting
Author: William Carey PolandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Colonial
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Robert Feke, the Early Newport Portrait Painter and the Beginnings of Colonial Painting
Author: William Carey PolandPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781356655373
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
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Robert Feke
Author: William Carey PolandPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332523955
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Excerpt from Robert Feke: The Early Newport Portrait Painter and the Beginnings of Colonial Painting It is superfluous, in this presence, to say that the early colonists in this country found but small opportunity, and discovered but little inclination, for the practice of the Fine Arts. They were dedicated to toil and hardship, subject to privations, hurt by the inclemencies of a strange sky, forced to create their farms and homesteads by conquest of the forests, exposed to countless perils from the wild beasts and from the hostile savages whom they had dispossessed of the soil. They had no time to develop or to practice art. Their energies were consumed by the strenuous exertions through which they nourished, clothed and sheltered their bodies and defended their lives. They had often but little to offer as a reward or emolument to the artist, if any artist could have been found to serve them. Beyond these limitations from without, the colonists, at least those of British origin, were not people whose sentiments and tastes were favorable to art. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, outside of a few favored and limited areas, were, on the whole, a time in which art was declining in Europe. The brilliant achievements of painting in Holland, Flanders and Spain in the seventeenth century, were not accompanied by any equal achievements in architecture and sculpture. French art was grandiose, rather than great, or at its best was gay and pleasing through a lively and natural manner of treating trivial themes. Only a few English artists earned permanent eminence, and these in the eighteenth century, mainly in the one art of painting, in which portrait painting bulked conspicuously. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Robert Feke, the Early Newport Portrait Painter and the Beginnings of Colonial Painting
Author: William Carey 1846-1929 PolandPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781014793447
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
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Robert Feke, the Early Newport Portrait Painter
Author: William Carey PolandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Portrait painting, American
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Discover the life and works of Robert Feke, one of the most significant portrait painters in New England history.
Robert Feke
Author: William Carey PolandPortrait of a Woman in Silk
Author: Zara AnishanslinPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300220553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and production or on consumption and use, Anishanslin unifies both, examining the worlds of four identifiable people who produced, wore, and represented this object: a London weaver, one of early modern Britain’s few women silk designers, a Philadelphia merchant’s wife, and a New England painter. Blending macro and micro history with nuanced gender analysis, Anishanslin shows how making, buying, and using goods in the British Atlantic created an object-based community that tied its inhabitants together, while also allowing for different views of the Empire. Investigating a range of subjects including self-fashioning, identity, natural history, politics, and trade, Anishanslin makes major contributions both to the study of material culture and to our ongoing conversation about how to write history.
Newportraits
Author: Newport Art Museum (R.I.)Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650188
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
"In 1992, the Newport Art Museum assembled an exhibition of 223 portraits of Newporters painted over a period of three centuries. It presented not just a gallery of the Newport elite and some of its haute bourgeoisie, but also a showcase of the most famous portraitists and portrait styles throughout United States history. Artists represented in this collection range from the great colonial portraitists Gilbert Stuart, Robert Feke, and John Singleton Copley to such modern figures as Diego Rivera, Larry Rivers, and Andy Warhol."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Early American Paintings
Author: Brooklyn MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description