Colonial & Barouque

Question 1

Answer 1

Augustine Clement,

1664→ Dr. John Clarke

First American painting

Question 2

Answer 2

1670→ Elizabeth Paddy Wensley

• flower symbolizing fertility and innocents
• Flatness, liney
• Compare command of textile vs other paintings

Question 3

Answer 3

1670→ Freake-Gibbs Painting/Limner

(Painted the whole family)/

• Alberti’s lines perspective, would not have read Alberti but would have been aware of this method of composing pictures
• → Elizabeth Freake and baby Mary (Redone to add baby)

Question 4

Answer 4

Capt. Thomas Smith,

Major Thomas Savage

1679

• Attributes and background tell
• you what he worked with. Baroque composition

Question 5

Answer 5

Peter Pelham,

1727 → Cotton Mater print.

Maybe first print in Am., did prints of Smibert’s paintings)

Question 6

Answer 6

John Smibert

1728→ The Bermuda Group

• Wainwright was the patron, Berkeley was the minister and idea man→ wanted to create a religious school in the Caribbean to minister to indigenous peoples there, Western Civilization
• Looks back to Classical styles. made up background with columns.
• First group portrait known in the colonies
• This becomes a model which artists in the colonies will continuously copy

Question 7

ROBERT FEKE

Answer 7

ROBERT FEKE→ 1741-1751

• Born in Oyster Bay, LI-Works in Newport
• Stylistically flat and pastel
• SUPER GOOD AT FABRICS– people wanted to show their wealth because of textile rarity

Question 8

Answer 8

Robert Feke

1741 - Isaac Royall and His Family

• inspired by Smibert’s Bermuda group
• 4 adults 1 child
• Family from Newport
• Self taught painter
• Has studied Smibert’s Bermuda group
• Turkey carpet
• Feke→ does not accomplish the transversal gazes of Smibert, Feke’s figures are stiff and waxlike

Question 9

Answer 9

John Greenwood,

1747→ Greenwood Lee Family

• Another attempt to copy the Bermuda group in formation
• Queen Anne (English) chair and no turkey work has a turkish hat on (turkery)
• Shows idea of furniture as something of wealth
• No unrealistic background
• A network of artists and they all know who was doing what where
• Gazes have changed from Smiberts, interacting with each other through gazes

Question 10

Answer 10

Robert Feke,

Portrait of a Woman, 1748

Question 11

Answer 11

Jeremiah Theus,

1757→ Elizabeth Wragg Manigault

• This is representational of Southern portraiture
• Charleston society
• Fabrics are still important in their placement and depiction in portraits as they still work to show wealth