Freake Painter

Anonymous American artist. The name is derived from two portraits of a young and affluent Boston family: John Freake and his wife Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary, both painted about 1664 and both in the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts. The quality of the second portrait in particular shows that the Freake Painter was one of the finest American artists of the Colonial period.

Another work attributed to the Freake Painter include The Three Gibb Children (1670) (Museum of Fine Art, Boston).