Portraits Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
PA.016 |
Title |
Ebenezer Flagg (senior) |
Artist |
Feke, Robert, circa 1707-circa 1752 |
Date |
1749 circa; 1750 (AAP, Foote) |
Description |
Ebenezer Flagg (1710-1762), a business partner of Henry Collins, married Governor Ward’s daughter, Mary, and settled in Newport. Portrait. Adult standing male subject in Colonial dress, knee-length view, facing right three-quarter turn with eyes facing front and slight down. His left hand rests on the pedestal of a column and his bent right arm rests on his hip. He has a full pink face, white wig and brown eyes and is wearing a light grey coat (identical to outfits of Henry Collins and Captain Wilkinson by Feke), with matching black waistcoat and a white shirt. Exterior view with a tan and brown wall at left behind the subject, a column at the right, and a view to a landscape with green trees and grass in the distance, right of center. (AAP; Powell 56) |
Object Name |
Painting |
Medium |
Oil Paint |
Material |
Canvas |
Dimensions |
H-127 W-102.9 cm |
Credit line |
The Gladys Moore Vanderbilt Széchényi Memorial Collection |
Provenance |
1991, December 24 - The Gladys Moore Vanderbilt Széchényi Memorial Collection |
Collection |
Painting |
People |
Szechenyi, Gladys Vanderbilt, Countess, 1887-1965 Thomas, Gladys Roberts Roberts, Eugene Bowie, Jr. Coudenhove-Kalergi, Dominik Coudenhove-Kalergi, Sophia Feke, Robert, circa 1707-circa 1752 Flagg, Ebenezer, 1710-1762 |
Notes |
Formerly #152. This is a companion painting to #151 in Redwood collection. Henry Collins, Ebenezer Flagg and Captain Wilkinson are all wearing identical outfits. This painting is part of a collection of eight paintings given to the Redwood Library by descendents of Countess László Sechényi, a daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt (1843-1899). It was the wish of Countess Sechényi that the portraits remain together as a group in Newport. Since the family enjoyed a long association with the Redwood Library and a majority of the people depicted in the paintings are part of the history of Newport, it was felt that the Library was the appropriate repository for the portraits. 1946 (8-30 Oct) Whitney Museum; (2-10 Nov) Heckscher Art Museum, Huntington, Long Island; (27 Nov-22 Dec) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts: "Robert Feke, Native Colonial Painter" |
Related Publications |
1907 Family Records on the Descendants of Gershom Flagg; 1926 "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England: my ancestor's part in that undertaking" by Flagg (opposite 142); 1947 (Jan) "Robert Feke As Revealed in the Recent Exhibition of Portraits". Art in America (56-70); 1986 The Flagg Family: An Artistic Legacy and the Provenance of a Collection by Powell (55) |