🖼️00New Clues Help Solve the Mystery of an Enslaved Boy Pictured in a Portrait by a Leading English ArtistSmithsonian Magazine·Christian Thorsberg·20 days ago#XIUoC1HG#art#boston#britishhistory#colonialism#england#ourry+6 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagAn oil painting by Joshua Reynolds features a named naval officer and a Black child whose life story was unknown until researchers searched through captains’ logs, letters and admiralty records15s0Read later0Read More
🖼️00Researchers Identify Enslaved Boy in Joshua Reynolds PaintingArtnet News·Richard Whiddington·24 days ago#AYp8ClZD#x3a#x20#x7b#x7d#x5b#jersey+7 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagResearchers analyzing a Joshua Reynolds painting has identified an unknown Black sitter, only known as Boston Jersey.15s0Read later0Read More
🖼️00Story of enslaved boy featured in 1748 Joshua Reynolds portrait emerges in new studythe Guardian·https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stevenmorris·25 days ago#Z08qf1bA#img#navigation#x2018#maincontent#jersey#ourry+6 more🧰Tag tools✨Add tagExclusive: Until now nothing was known about ‘Jersey’, depicted with naval officer, but research raises hopes he may have won freedom15s0Read later0Read More
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