this work holds a unique historical significance as likely among the first known portraits commissioned by an American who was born into slavery. Johnston, who recently published an article about ...

Gordon Burnette is trying to locate paintings made in the 1800s by Thomas J ... farm owners frequently commissioned artists to do portraits. The portraits focus mostly on the horse’s features ...

The work is likely one of the first paintings commissioned by a person born into slavery in the U.S., and tells a fascinating story of a free Black family before emancipation. It’s also a rare ...

Boesen was commissioned to examine the damage to seven of the 20 paintings in the UI Presidential Portrait Gallery. The university is slowly restoring the historical paintings, which date to the ...