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Painter. Known solely as a portraitist, North America's first major artist remains anonymous. Active in Boston during the 1670s, he takes his name from a pair of portraits depicting Mr. and Mrs. John Freake (Worcester [Massachusetts] Art Museum, about 1671; reworked about 1674). Trained in England or by someone familiar with Elizabethan art forms, the artist balances simple design, shallow space, and delicate drawing with linear elegance, rich color accents, and luxuriant embellishments. His masterpiece, the portrait of Elizabeth Freake with her baby, tenderly and respectfully evokes the sitter's dignified presence and maternal affection.
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Freake Limnerunknown1670
 
1680unknown

Andrea Lopez Caballero16471660
 
1670s 9unknown
 a Spanish painter. He was born in Naples, but studied in Madrid under Antolinez. He devoted himse...
Jan Lievens1607, Oct 241619
 
16721674, Jun 4
 a Dutch painter, usually associated with Rembrandt, working in a similar style. Lievens collabora...
Ingen Ryuki1592, Dec 71620
 
16731673, May 19
 a Chinese Linji Chán Buddhist monk, poet, and calligrapher. He is most known for founding the Ob...
Salvator Rosa1615, Jun 20/Jul 211634
 
16731673, Mar 15
 an Italian Baroque painter, poet, and printmaker, who was active in Naples, Rome, and Florence. A...
Karel Dujardin1622, Sep 271640
 
16751678, Nov 20
 a Dutch Golden Age painter. Although he did a few portraits and a few history paintings of religi...
Kaspar Amort16121642
 
16751675, Mar 7
 a 17th century German painter, active in Munich. In 1642, following his return to Munich he was m...
Jose Claudio Antolinez16351650
 
16751675, May 30
 a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. His "haughty character and sarcastic personality gained ...
Antonio Vela Cobo16291654
 
16751675
 a Spanish Baroque painter, sculptor and gilder. Cobo was the son of the painter and gilder CristÃ...
Juan de Arellano1614, Aug 31640
 
16761676, Oct 13
 a Spanish painter of the Baroque era who specialized in floral still life paintings. Born in Sant...
Simon Johannes van Douw1630 ca1654
 
16771687 ca
 a Flemish painter and draughtsman. His work ranges from Italianizing landscapes, equestrian skirm...
Theodoor Boeyermans1620, Nov 101660
 
16771678, Jan
 a Flemish painter active in Antwerp who painted Baroque history paintings and group portraits inf...
Penelope Cleynunknown1668
 
1677unknown
 a miniature painter active in London. Her exact birth and death dates are not known. She was tra...
Gian Lorenzo Bernini1598, Dec 71609
 
16781680, Nov 28
 an Italian artist and a prominent architect who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sc...
Pieter van Anraedt1635 ca1650
 
16781678, Apr 13
 a Dutch Golden Age painter of history scenes. Little is known about the circumstances of his life...
Pieter Jansz van Asch1602/031623
 
16791678, Jun
 a Dutch Golden Age painter. He was born at Delft, the son of the portrait painter Jan van Asch an...
Barent Avercamp16121630
 
16791679, Oct
 a Dutch painter. Avercamp was born in Kampen and was taught by his uncle Hendrick Avercamp, who w...
Juan de Alfaro y Gomez16431660
 
16791680
 a Spanish painter of the Baroque. He was born at Córdoba. He was first a pupil of Antonio del Ca...
Maximilian Herregoutsunknown1670
 
1679unknown
 a Flemish painter. Little is known about Maximilian Herregouts other than two works, one entitled...
Richard Gaywoodunknown1650
 
1680unknown
 an English engraver. He was a pupil of Wenceslaus Hollar, and worked in his style. A friend of Fr...
Willem van Aelst1627, May 161643
 
16831687
 a Dutch Golden Age artist who specialized in still-life painting with flowers or game. Born in De...
Francisco Herrera the Younger16221650
 
16851685, Aug 25
 a Spanish painter and architect. He excelled in still life. He already painted bodegones, fish so...
Johann Paul Auer16361660
 
16871687
 a German artist. born at Nuremberg, studied from 1654 to 1658 under Georg Christoph Eimmart at Ra...
Pierre Paul Puget1620, Oct 161634
 
16881694, Dec 2
 a French painter, sculptor, architect and engineer. He was born in Marseille. At the age of fourt...
Theodor Aenvanck16331647
 
16891690 ca
 a Flemish Baroque painter, known for his flower still lifes. He became a member of the Antwerp Gu...
Thomas Smith [2]unknown1670
 
1689unknown
 a seventeenth-century American artist and mariner. He is best known for the self-portrait that he...
Paul van Somer IIunknown1670
 
1694unknown
 engraver active in england
Lucas Achtschellinck1626, Jan1657
 
16991699, May
 a Flemish landscape painter. No signed or documented works of Achtschellinck are known, although ...
Francisco Antolinez16451660
 
16991700
 an historical and landscape painter, and studied in the school of Murillo, whose style and manner...
Isidoro Arredondo1655 ca1670
 
17021702
 an eminent Spanish painter, was born at Colmenar de Oreja. He painted history with much success, ...
Jan van Call16551670
 
17031703
 a Dutch artist born in Nijmegen. His drawings are more esteemed than his pictures; they are purch...
Luca Giordano1634, Oct 181650
 
17051705, Jan 12
 an Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked succe...
Francois de Troy16451671
 
17081730
 a French painter and engraver who became principal painter to King James II in exile at Saint-Ger...
Andrea Pozzo1642, Nov 301659
 
17091709, Aug 31
 an Italian Jesuit Brother, Baroque painter and architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theo...
Francisco de Artiga16501670
 
17111711
 an engraver, an architect, a mathematician, and an author of reputation. He painted several 'Siby...
Matthijs Naiveu1647, Apr 161668
 
17211726, Jun 4
 a Dutch Golden Age painter. In 1671 he entered the Leiden Guild of St. Luke and he was highly pro...
Antoine Coypel1661, Apr 111679
 
17211722, Jan 7
 a history painter, the more famous son of the French painter Noel Coypel. Antoine Coypel was born...
Etienne Allegrain16441670
 
17361736, Apr 2
 a French topographical painter. Inspired by Nicolas Poussin, he evoked still ambiences and atmosp...
Frans Post1612, Nov 171630
 
1751680, Feb 17
 a Dutch painter. He was the first European artist to paint landscapes of the Americas, and theref...
Frederik de Moucheron16331659
 
1771686, Jan 2
 a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. He painted French, Italian, and Dutch landscapes. To finish...
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