New Portraits Spotlight Black Revolutionaries Left Out of History. ... As a property-owner, he became one of the very first Black British people to vote in a general election, in 1774.

A 17th-century British portrait featuring an identified Black subject is shedding new light on the lives of enslaved attendants in aristocratic households thanks to the rediscovery of a letter ...

In 1848 or thereabouts, a talented artist painted an almost life-size group portrait of the three children of one of the ...

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...

Portrait of Man in Black, (painting) American Art Museum. Object Details painter Pierce, M. Subject Unidentified Notes Flower, Dean, and Francis Murphy, "A Catalogue of American Painting, Water Colors ...

A Black custodian was beloved at a North Texas church. But he wasn't allowed to worship there. John Thomas was a black man and World War I vet hired 100 years ago in 1924 at Broadway Baptist Church.