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== Colonial Period and The Eighteenth Century==

== Colonial Period and The Eighteenth-Nineteenth Century==

[[Image:Brown William Vans Murray.jpg|thumb|William Vans Murray by Mather Brown, 1787.]]

[[Image:Brown William Vans Murray.jpg|thumb|William Vans Murray by Mather Brown, 1787.]]

Painting in American colonial period consisted mainly of [[portraits|portraits]]. John Smibert, America's first well-trained artist, landed at Newport in 1729. Robert Feke painted the beauty of the aristocratic yearnings of Colonial society. [[Benjamin West]] (1738 - 1820) was a [[Neoclassical]] [[painter]]; West had an important leadership and influence on later artists; he had a long list of American students that later became famous painters.

Painting in American colonial period consisted mainly of [[portraits|portraits]]. John Smibert, America's first well-trained artist, landed at Newport in 1729. Robert Feke painted the beauty of the aristocratic yearnings of Colonial society. [[Benjamin West]] (1738 - 1820) was a [[Neoclassical]] [[painter]]; West had an important leadership and influence on later artists; he had a long list of American students that later became famous painters.