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The earliest portrait of a native of Maine attributed to a native-born American artist has been acquired by the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. It is the likeness of the Reverend Seth Storer illustrated above, which for many years was thought to be the work of the Scottish-born John Smibert, but research within the last decade has shown it to be from the hand of Robert Feke, who is widely considered the first American-born painter of note. Storer was born in 1702, probably in Saco, Maine, the ninth child of Hannah and Joseph Storer, an Indian fighter. He was sent to school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of eleven and graduated from Harvard College in 1720. By July 1724 he had been ordained and took over the pulpit of the church in nearby Watertown, Massachusetts, where he remained for the rest of his life.
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Coincidentally, Watertown was the home of the first Feke in America, Robert Feke's great-grandfather, also Robert, who settled there in 1631. The painter Feke, however, grew up on Long Island in New York and settled in Newport, Rhode Island; he did not make his way to the Boston region until 1748, the year he is believed to have executed this portrait. When Henry Wilder Foote identified the painting as by the London-trained Smibert, he commented: "The face is thoughtful and serious, but gentle, and the portrait is one of Smibert's most pleasing pictures of Puritan ministers." These observations hold equally for Feke.
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