All Pine, Robert Edge's oil paintings
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19889  
Pine, Robert Edge, Charles and John Vaugh
  		Charles and John Vaugh 1785-88 Oil on canvas Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA.
19888  
Pine, Robert Edge, George Washington
  		George Washington 1785 Oil on canvas Warner Collection.
81137  
Pine, Robert Edge, Portrait of Catharine Macaulay
  		Portrait of Catharine Macaulay . 1775(1775) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 137 x 105 cm (53.9 x 41.3 in) cyf
Pine, Robert Edge
American, 1720-88 English painter, active also in America. His father, John Pine (1691-1756), was a well-known engraver and printseller of whom William Hogarth painted a portrait (c. 1755; Fredericton, NB, Beaverbrook A.G.). Robert Edge Pine was initially considered to have the potential to rival Joshua Reynolds as a portrait painter, a promise derived from such works as the full-length portrait of George II (1759; Audley End, Essex), painted without a sitting being granted him by the King. In 1760 he won a premium at the Society of Arts, London, for a history painting, the Surrender of Calais to Edward III, also known as the Burghers of Calais (untraced), which was engraved in 1762 by Fran?ois Germain Aliamet (1734-88), and another in 1763 for Canute the Great Reproving his Courtiers for their Impious Flattery (untraced), also engraved by Aliamet. Pine was not invited to become a founder-member of the Royal Academy in 1768, probably because of his radical politics; that year he painted a portrait of the political agitator John Wilkes (London, Westminster Hall). In 1772 he left the Society of Arts following a quarrel over its choice of directors; he moved to Bath, where he joined his brother, Simon Pine (d Aug 1772), a painter of miniatures. Their sister was married to the landscape painter Alexander Cozens. While at Bath Pine painted his most ambitious family group,



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