Brief Biography-Robert Feke was born to a Dutch family in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. He worked as a seaman, and reports had it; he was taken prisoner and shipped to Spain, where he learned to paint. When he returned, he lived in Newport, Rhode Island, before moving to Boston in 1741 and married in 1742. He painted his first significant group portrait, The Family Portrait of Isaac Royall, in Boston and worked out of Philadelphia in 1746. John Smibert, John Wollaston and Benjamin West may have influenced his work. Accounts say he went to Bermuda for health reasons and subsequently died there circa 1752.