Freake Painter

A portrait painter who worked in Boston in New England between 1670 and 1680 is referred to as a Freake Painter ( German "Freake painter") . The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name after two of his portraits, one by John Freake, the other from his wife Elizabeth Freake, which he painted with a toddler.

The Freake Painter is familiar with the painting style of portraits in Elizabethan England. A total of eight to ten portraits from the early days of the English colonization of North America are ascribed to him. These pictures are an example of the need for self-expression that economically successful and wealthy citizens of the colony developed from 1670 after the years of construction. The eponymous portraits are now in the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts .

The Freake Painter is sometimes referred to as Limner , Freake Limner or Freake-Gibbs-Mason Limner.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Freake Painter. In: Ann Lee Morgan: The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists. Oxford 2007, p. 165.
2. ^ Louis B. Wright: The Cultural Life of the American Colonies . Dover 2002, p. 108.
3. ^ Freake-Gibbs-Mason Limner. In: Gerard C. Wertkin (Ed.): Encyclopedia of American Folk Art. New York 2004, p. 202.

literature

• Jonathan L. Fairbanks, Robert F. Trent (Eds.): New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century. Volume III, Boston 1983.
• Elisabeth Louise Roark: Artists of Colonial America . Westport 2003.
• Freake-Gibbs-Mason Limner. In: Gerard C. Wertkin (Ed.): Encyclopedia of American Folk Art . New York 2004, p. 202.
• Freake Painter. In: Ann Lee Morgan: The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists. Oxford 2007, p. 165.
• Freake Painter (1670-c. 1680). In: Joan M. Marter: The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art. Oxford. New York 2011, pp. 271-272.

Web links

• Portrait of John Freake , Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts. (accessed August 2015)
• Portrait of Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary , Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts. (accessed August 2015)