A museum is appealing for information on the subject of a beguiling Victorian era painting known as The Black Boy. Painted in 1844, the arresting portrait depicts a black child dressed in torn ...
As part of Black History Month on BBC Radio 3 ... through the processes of researching and recreating each portrait. 1. The man with the ship on his head In the first episode we meet Joseph ...
click image for close-up The portrait of Agrippa Hull, a freeborn black man and Revolutionary War veteran who lived in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, hangs in the historical room of the town library.