Robert Edge Pine (1720/30–1788)

• Was an English portrait and historical painter.
• He was born in London.
• He was the son of John Pine, the engraver and designer.
• He painted portraits, such as those of George II, of the Duke of Northumberland; a series of scenes from Shakespeare, some of which afterward appeared in Boydell's Shakespeare.
• It is thought that Pine gave lessons to Prince Demah in London.
• Around 1784, Pine travelled to America and settled in Philadelphia.
• Among his sitters were General Gates, Charles Carroll, Robert Morris, George Read, Thomas Stone, Mrs. Reid, and Washington (1785).
• An historically interesting canvas Congress Voting Independence, now in the Historical Society, Philadelphia, was begun by Pine and finished by Edward Savage.
• In 1786, Pine was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.
• After Pine's death many of his pictures were collected in the Columbian Museum in Boston.
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