Portraits Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
PA.018 |
Title |
Reverend Thomas Hiscox |
Artist |
Feke, Robert, circa 1707-circa 1752 |
Date |
1745 |
Description |
Thomas Hiscox (1686-1773), a Newport native, served as pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist Congregation in Westerly, RI. The portrait was commissioned by Henry Collins and remained in his estate. Portrait. Late middle-aged adult male subject in clerical robe, bust view, facing left at three-quarter turn looking down on the viewer from above. The subject has white flowing hair and grey eyes, a black clerical robe and white cascading collar. The background is an ochre medium brown with the bottom half of an oval, painted a reddish brown cutting across the figure. The painting was originally set in a gold painted wooden frame with brown spandrels (corner decorations). (AAP) |
Object Name |
Painting |
Medium |
Oil Paint |
Material |
Canvas |
Dimensions |
H-76.2 W-63.5 cm |
Credit line |
The Gladys Moore Vanderbilt Széchényi Memorial Collection |
Provenance |
1991, December - The Gladys Moore Vanderbilt Széchényi Memorial Collection The portrait, commissioned by Henry Collins, descended to his niece, Mary Ward (1713-1781), wife of Ebenezer Flagg. Her son, Dr. Henry Collins Flagg (1742-1801) passed the portrait on to his own son, Dr. Ebenezer Flagg (1795-1838). In 1896 his nephew, Wi |
Signed Name |
R. Feke, A.D. 1745 |
Collection |
Painting |
People |
Szechenyi, Gladys Vanderbilt, Countess, 1887-1965 Széchényi, Countess László Thomas, Gladys Roberts Roberts, Eugene Bowie, Jr. Coudenhove-Kalergi, Sophia Coudenhove-Kalergi, Dominik Hadik, John Béla Hadik, Andrew Hadik, Alexandra Hadik, Christopher Prevost, Cornelia Hadik Szápáry, Sylvia Széchényi Eltz, Nandine Széchényi Finch Hatton, Christopher Stormant Finch Hatton, Robin Feke, Robert, circa 1707-circa 1752 Hiscox, Thomas, 1686-1773 |
Notes |
Formerly #141. 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 of American Art; (2-10 Nov) Heckscher Art Museum, Huntington, Long Island; (27 Nov-22 Dec) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts: Robert Feke, Native Colonial Painter; 1949 Art Institute of Chicago From Colony to Nation -An Exhibition of American Painting, Silver, and Architecture from 1650 to the War of 1812; 1953 (Summer-2 Oct) Preservation Society of Newport County at Nichols-Wanton-Hunter House The Newport Exhibition; 1967 Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Early Portraits in Rhode Island; 1969-70 (Oct -May) Wichita Art Museum traveling exhibition American Paintings from Newport: Wilmington, Delaware; San Francisco, California; Wichita, Kansas; Cincinnati, Ohio |
Related Publications |
1946 "Self Taught American: Robert Feke". American Collector 6-7 (20); 1947 (Jan) "Aristocratic Visions: The Art of Robert Feke". Magazine of Art 40 (2-7, 35-46); "Robert Feke as Revealed in the Recent Exhibition of Portraits". Art in America 35 (56-70); "1947 First Flowers of our Wilderness" by Flexner ( ); 1953 "The Newport Exhibition" by Carpenter Antiques 64 (45); 1957 "Three Hundred Years of American Painting" by Eliot (8); 1907 Stauffer (pt 1 71); see also (pt. 2 392). Engraving ("taken from an original picture painted by Mr. Feke") by Samuel Okey, 1773; 1966 "Painting: The Arts in America: The Colonial Period" by McCoubrey (193); 1967 Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design "Early Portraits in Rhode Island"; 1969-70 (Oct -May) Wichita Art Museum traveling exhibition "American Paintings from Newport": Wilmington, Delaware; San Francisco, California; Wichita, Kansas; Cincinnati, Ohio; 1969-70 "American Paintings from Newport" by Boyle (49); 1986 "The Flagg Family: An Artistic Legacy and the Provenance of a Collection" by Powell (62); 1999 "The American Art Book", p. 143 |