Lot 167: ROBERT FEKE (1707 - 1752)

PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN COLLECTOR
PORTRAIT OF MRS. TENCH FRANCIS
In what appears to be the original frame; Bears a label on the back of the frame: Mr. Willing, Bryn Mawr.

Painted circa 1746.

Label on the back of the stretcher: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Robert Feke, Portrait of Mrs. Tench Francis, 11-1969-2. Lender: Mr. E. Shippen Willing, Jr.
Oil on canvas
36 in. by 28 1/2 in.

Foote, Henry Wilder. Robert Feke: Colonial Portrait Painter (Cambridge, 1930, rpt. Kennedy Galleries, 1969);

R. Peter Mooz, "Robert Feke: A Philadelphia Story," in American Painting to 1776: A Reappraisal, ed. by M.G. Quimby (Winterthur Conference Report, 1971): 181-216.

Mrs. Tench Francis (formerly Elizabeth Turbutt) to her daughter Margaret Tench Francis (who married Edward Shippen);

descended to Edward's son Richard Shippen;

to Richard's daughter Elizabeth Shippen (died 1871 in Burlington, New Jersey);

to her brother Edward Shippen, Philadelphia;

Katherine Shippen Packard:

to her nephew Edward Shippen Willing in c. 1905;

to his son E. Shippen Willing, Jr., Bainbridge Island, Washington.