Robert Feke / Charles Apthorp / 1748

Robert Feke
Charles Apthorp
1748
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Creator Name: Feke, Robert
Creator Nationality: North American; American
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: c. 1707 - 1752
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Robert Feke
Title: Charles Apthorp
Title Type: Primary
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1748
Creation End Date: 1748
Creation Date: 1748
Object Type: Paintings
Classification Term: Painting
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Unframed: 127cm x 101.5cm
Inscriptions: signed lower right R F P / 174[8]
AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 1919.1006
Credit Line: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html
Provenance: family of the sitter, to Sarah Clinch Bond, New York (1914). The Brook Club, New York.
Context:

Called "the greatest merchant on this continent" in his obituary, the London-born and Boston-based Charles Apthorp (1698-1758) helped transform his adopted city into one of the key commercial centers in the American colonies. When the fashionable painter Feke came to town, Apthorp not only commissioned this likeness of himself, but also portraits of his wife and daughter. Richly dressed and confidently posed, Apthrop is the very image of stable wealth and prominent social position. The unfolded letter on the table and distant sailing ship symbolize the dynamic exchange of credit and goods by which he earned his wealth.

AMICA ID: CMA_.1919.1006
AMICA Library Year: 2002
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art

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