I'd found a number of portraits that depict their black subjects as real people, not caricatures, and Joseph Johnson's was one of those. It was etched by John Thomas Smith in 1815 and appeared in ...

In the last act of his life, my father might be teaching me one final lesson: how an elderly black man is supposed to grieve.

An artist says he has faced racism within the art world and has struggled to find galleries willing to display his portraits ...

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.

We have 20 of his stunning portraits, and his full set is worth ... Jeffries' explained in an email: "I think the overriding theme of my black and whites is emotion. Every image you see possesses ...

Oftentimes, the evidence for the presence of black people in this region of Europe is quite sparse, but in this case we have several confirmations, including a visual one. The mistress of the ...

Through Portrait of Black Britain, he hopes to both amplify the contributions made by Black people living in the UK and make them more visible, plus also give the next generation and wider society a ...