While most of the portraits on view at the AGO don’t ... to public space” took place in the later decades of the 19th century, stemming from fervent opposition to a series of laws known ...
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...
Stuart is known for his presidential portraiture; 100 replicas of George Washington alone. By the 19th century, the invention of photography revolutionised portraiture. No longer constrained by ...