Rare, problematic portrait of 19th-century enslaved man named Frederick sells to unknown buyer at New Orleans auction for ...

39 x 34 1/2in (framed) canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm; 30 x 25in 99.5 x 87.5 cm; ...

Under a silver gray sky, I stared up at a line of elegant 19th-century buildings on the ... Adams' book remains a compelling self-portrait of a man trying to keep his feet as the ground shifts ...

But as conventional as Prior’s composition may have been, Lawson’s sitting for the portrait was a radical ... Black subjects from the 17th to 19th centuries opens in November.