COMING UP NEXT WEEK at Bruce Castle ...
Wednesday 5 June, 7.30pm
BLACK BRITONS IN ART, 1780 - 1840
by Dr Jan Marsh, writer, curator, and 19th century portraiture specialist
In the long decades of the Abolitionist campaigns against British and American slavery during the late 1700s and 1800s, citizens of African ancestry were a very visible presence in London, and were depicted by white artists in a variety of visual images from oil paintings to illustrations. This talk by Jan Marsh, the curator of the Black Victorians exhibition, brings their images into view.
The talk accompanies the current exhibition at Bruce Castle Museum, 'Black Georgian Londoners: Portraits, People and Perceptions', which brings together a rare collection of black portraiture and shows the depth of the black presence and communities in this country.
Dr Jan Marsh was the curator and author of 'Black Victorians: black people in British Art 1800-1900' (published by Manchester Art Gallery and Lund Humphries, 2005). She works at the National Portrait Gallery and lives in Haringey.
Doors open 7pm.
Kindly supported by the Fellowship of St John and the Friends of Bruce Castle
Bruce Castle Museum, Lordship Lane, Tottenham, N17 8NU
020 8808 8772
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