Art in America; a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 21
in thiscountry is a group representing the family of Bishop Berkeley, now in theart gallery at New Haven. A flock of foreign portrait-painters, followingthe example of Smybert, now came over to this country, and renderedgood service in perpetuating the faces of the notable characters and beau-ties… … painter of merit of whom there is any authentic record was Robert Feke,who was of Quaker descent, and settled in Newport, where portraits of hisare still to be seen, notably that of the beautiful wife of Governor Wanton,which is preserved in the Redwood Library. What little art-education hereceived…
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