About Freake-Gibbs painter
Freake-Gibbs painter was a painter.
Elizabeth Clarke Freake (Mrs. John Freake) and Baby Mary by the Freake Painter The Freake Painter (fl. 1670s), also known as the Freake Limner and the Freake-Gibbs Painter, was an anonymous American portrait painter who has been described as "North America's first major artist".
About ten portraits, all painted between 1670 and 1674 and showing residents of Boston, have been attributed to the Freake Painter.
The Freakes were one of the wealthiest families in Boston. They built their richness on the trade of goods and the transatlantic slave trade.
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painter of unknown name, active in New England c.1670
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