id: 99429
accession number: 1919.1006
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1919.1006
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Charles Apthorp, 1748. Robert Feke (American, c. 1707–c. 1752). Oil on canvas; framed: 141.5 x 117.5 x 7.5 cm (55 11/16 x 46 1/4 x 2 15/16 in.); unframed: 127 x 101.5 cm (50 x 39 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1919.1006
title: Charles Apthorp
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creation date: 1748
creation date earliest: 1748
creation date latest: 1748
current location: 204 Colonial American
creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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culture: America, 18th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Robert Feke (American, c. 1707–c. 1752) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 141.5 x 117.5 x 7.5 cm (55 11/16 x 46 1/4 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 127 x 101.5 cm (50 x 39 15/16 in.)
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inscription: Signed lower right: R F P/174[8]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition
opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00
The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).
title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
title: 200th Birthday of the Apthorp Mansion
opening date: 1960-10-17T04:00:00
200th Birthday of the Apthorp Mansion. Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (October 17-November 5, 1960).
title: American Realists
opening date: 1961-03-11T05:00:00
American Realists. Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada (organizer) (March 11-April 23, 1961).
title: Paul Revere's Boston, 1735 - 1818
opening date: 1975-04-18T04:00:00
Paul Revere's Boston, 1735 - 1818. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (organizer) (April 18-October 12, 1975).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Boston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1909-14.', 'opening_date': '1909-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition (26 June-4 October 1936) illus. cat. no. 26, plate II, listed p. 23.', 'opening_date': '1936-06-26T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Oberlin, Ohio, Allen Memorial Art Museum, The Arts in America in the Eighteenth Century (May, 1946), illus. cat. no. 5, p. 70, listed p. 68; see Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum (May, 1946) vol. 3, no. 3 for catalogue.', 'opening_date': '1946-05-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Robert Feke (8-30 October 1946); traveled to Huntington, Long, Island, Heckscher Art Museum (2-10 November 1946); to Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (27 November-22 December 1946) illus. cat. no. 2.', 'opening_date': '1946-11-27T00:00:00'}
* {'description': '[Huntington, New York, Heckscher Art Museum, Robert Feke: Native Colonial Painter (2-10 November, 1946), they had their own, second catalogue; illus. p. 26.', 'opening_date': '1946-11-02T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Likeness of America: 1680-1820 (5 July-4 September 1949) illus. cat. no. 25, plate 7.', 'opening_date': '1949-07-05T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Palm Beach, Florida, Society of the Four Arts, Plymouth Rock to the Armory (9 February-5 March, 1950) cat. no. 3, not illus.', 'opening_date': '1950-02-09T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Two Hundred Years of American Painting (8 March-3 April 1955), illus. cat. no. 3, plate 3.', 'opening_date': '1955-03-08T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Rediscoveries in American Painting (3 October-6 November, 1955), cat. no. 38.', 'opening_date': '1955-10-03T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Akron, Akron Art Institute, American Portraits (23 February-18 March, 1956)', 'opening_date': '1956-02-23T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 200th Birthday Celebration of the Apthorp Mansion (17 October-5 November 1960)', 'opening_date': '1960-10-17T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Hamilton, Ontario, Art Gallery of Hamilton, American Realists: An Exhibition of American Paintings from the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (11 March-23 April 1961) illus. cat. no. 20.', 'opening_date': '1961-03-11T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Peoria, IL, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, 200 Years of American Painting (27 March-28 April 1965)', 'opening_date': '1965-03-27T00:00:00'}
* {'description': "Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Paul Revere's Boston: 1735-1818 (18 April-21 October 1975) illus. cat. no. 44, p. 43 listed p. 220; also included pp. 27-57.", 'opening_date': '1975-04-18T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Family of the sitter; To Sarah Apthorp Cunningham Bond, Cambridge, MA (d. 1914); To her son William Cranch Bond, Malden, MA; Thomas B. Clarke, New York ; The Brook Club, New York.
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CITATIONS
L. P. "Portrait of Charles Apthorp by Robert Feke." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 5 (1919): 79-80.
page number: Reproduced: Front Matter; Mentioned: pp. 79-80
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136287
"Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 6 (1919): 113-14.
page number: Mentioned: p. 114
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25136301
Park, Lawrence. "Report on the Department of Colonial Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 7/8 (1919): 130-31.
page number: Mentioned: p.130
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136313
Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945.
page number: Reproduced: p. 11
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n19
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 526
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n97
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 155
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n179
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 155
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n179
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 197
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n217
Anishanslin, Zara. Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016
page number: Reproduced: P. 264
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IMAGES
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