Please answer the following in at least 200 words each:
1) Explain the typical depictions of North America and the West Indies by the earliest artists and writers. Note common subject matter and types of images.
2) How do the Freake portraits show the connection between business and religion for Puritans around Boston? Explain how we are supposed to see the people depicted.
3) Explain why portrait painting rather than another type of painting or sculpture was the main fine art in the colonies. How did it fit with the religious, social, and economic structure of colonial life (particularly around Boston, the main art center)? Choose several examples from the assigned material to explain the varying ways that portraiture served the needs of colonists.
4) Explain the connection between the 1760s and 1770s republican movement and portrait painting. Discuss several ways artists expressed the republican ideals of their sitters.