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"tombstone": "Charles Apthorp, 1748. Robert Feke (American, c. 1707\u2013c. 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",
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"title": "Charles Apthorp",
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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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"title": "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition",
"description": "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).",
"opening_date": "1936-06-26T04:00:00"
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"title": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition",
"description": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).",
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"title": "200th Birthday of the Apthorp Mansion",
"description": "200th Birthday of the Apthorp Mansion. Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (October 17-November 5, 1960).",
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"title": "American Realists",
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"title": "Paul Revere's Boston, 1735 - 1818",
"description": "Paul Revere's Boston, 1735 - 1818. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (organizer) (April 18-October 12, 1975).",
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"description": "Boston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1909-14.",
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"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"
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"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"
},
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"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"
},
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"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"
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"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"
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"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"
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"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"
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"description": "Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Recent Rediscoveries in American Painting (3 October-6 November, 1955), cat. no. 38.",
"opening_date": "1955-10-03T00:00:00"
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"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"
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"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.",
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"description": "Peoria, IL, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, 200 Years of American Painting (27 March-28 April 1965)",
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},
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"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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"description": "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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"did_you_know": "Much remains unknown regarding artist Robert Feke\u2019s life, including his birth and death dates.",
"description": "Called \u201cthe greatest merchant on this Continent\u201d in his obituary, Apthorp helped transform Boston into one of the key commercial centers in the American colonies. When the fashionable painter Robert Feke came to town, Apthorp commissioned this elegantly tailored and confidently posed likeness of himself. The sailing ship in the distant background symbolizes Apthorp\u2019s deep financial interests in the Atlantic trade, which included not only textiles, wine, and guns, but also enslaved people. In fact, the slave trade and its attendant commerce comprised a significant portion of colonial Boston\u2019s economy until the decades after the Revolutionary War, when anti-slavery attitudes in New England gained momentum.",
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"citation": "Milliken, William M., \"Superb Art Display Marks Cleveland Museum's 20th Anniversary,\" Art Digest 10 (July 1, 1936).",
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"citation": "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",
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"citation": "\"Accessions.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 6 (1919): 113-14.",
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"citation": "Park, Lawrence. \"Report on the Department of Colonial Art.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 7/8 (1919): 130-31.",
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"citation": "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"
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"citation": "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",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"citation": "Anishanslin, Zara. Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016",
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