ATTRIBUTED TO ROBERT FEKE
Massachusetts/Rhode Island, 1707-1751
American Colonial portrait of a seated woman holding flowers. Unsigned. Inscribed verso "Portrait by Feke Early American Painter".
Oil on canvas, 37" x 27" sight. Framed 40.75" x 33".
Provenance:
The Estate of Martha T. Daniel of Bristol, Tennessee.
Case Antiques, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2022.

Notes:
This portrait is similar to one of Miss Willamina Moore painted by Feke, illustrated in Library of American Art: Robert Feke, Colonial Portrait Painter by Henry Wilder Foote, p. 71. In both portraits the sitters hold flowers in their delicately detailed hands.

Relined, with some very small spots of paint restoration, and several small spots of paint loss. The absence of a condition report does not imply an object is free of defects. All items may have normal signs of age and wear commensurate with their
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