This sailor was one of the first Black figures at the center of a history painting. What can a close look tell us about Black life during colonial times?
Lammot Belin Fund, 1963.6.1 The Black Sailor at the Top of the Pyramid The Black man
Visual Description Shown from the hips up, a woman and a man stand side-by-side
lithograph on wove paper · Accession ID 2021.67.3 Artwork Gioacchino Banfi, Seated Man
This painting is based on a true account of a shark attack in Havana Harbor in 1749. John Singleton Copley depicts a critical moment in the attempted rescue of 14-year-old Brook Watson.
In the water, the man floats with his chest facing the sky, his right arm overhead
Frans van Mieris (1635–1681) was one of the most celebrated Leiden fijnschilders („fine painters“), whose elegant works are marked by smooth execution, invisible brushwork, and extraordinary attention to detail. Gerrit Dou (1613–1675) , with whom Van Mieris studied, described him as “the prince of all my pupils.â€� His small paintings of convivial genres, portraits, and allegories with their lively, often ambiguous narratives delighted both local and international collectors.
Zoom In Zoom Out Recenter Visual Description A pale-skinned, bearded man
George Luks was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1866 to a lively and cultured family. Luks’s father, a multilingual doctor, emigrated from Poland;
draw attention to his privileged upbringing or to his European travels as a young man
Pinakothek, Munich) [3] and as late as the mid-1650s in the seated Portrait of a Man
In this intimate full-length portrait, the Deventer burgomaster (chief magistrate) Gerhard van Suchtelen (1640–1722) stands gracefully in a domestic interior gazing out at the viewer with an air of restrained elegance. Deventer, located in the province of Overijssel in the eastern portion of the Netherlands, held tightly to tradition and conservative values, qualities that Gerhard conveys with his somber black attire:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 7 January-15 March 1884, no. 60, as Portrait of a Man
ink on tan paper, fields stretch away from us toward three farm buildings and a man
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· bronze · Accession ID 1957.14.1115.a Artwork Italian 16th Century, Young Man
