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Thomas Hees served as a diplomat in Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Among other duties, he negotiated the purchase of the freedom of Dutch slaves and protested against the privateering of Dutch ships. Hees had himself portrayed in a relaxed pose, smoking, and…

Laura de' Dianti, de vrouw en vroegere minares van hertog Alfonso I d'Este. Naast haar een jonge zwarte slaaf.

This is the only known portrait of a black man in early European painting. He may have served at the Brussels court of Emperor Charles V, who had a black archer called Christophle le More among his bodyguards. The badge of the Virgin on his cap is a souve…

A favourite motif of the Italianates was a small harbour on the Mediterranean Sea with a crumbling quay and a ruin. At right are an African man and a couple of Turkish traders. At the left, a man in northern European clothing gestures out to sea. Overseas…

Mary Stuart, daughter of the king of England, was the wife of the Dutch stadholder Willem II of Orange-Nassau. She died at the age of just 29. This portrait was painted a couple of years later by Hanneman, who was the most important portrait painter of Th…

Oljemålning på duk, föreställande en ung afrikansk man med apor och papegojor. Förgylld profilerad ram av trä. /Anna Arfvidsson Womack 2022; Afrikan, fåglar, papegoja; Enligt Bertil Rapp, Djur och stilleben i karolinskt måleri (1951), är denna målning en …

Het schilderij portretteert een jong blank meisje en een zwarte jongen in een luxueus ingericht salon. Beiden kijken ...

Familiegroep met een zwarte man. Ouders met vijf kinderen, in het midden een zwarte man. Links zit de oudste dochter met een kind op schoot, daarnaast de zoon met een stok, een dochter met een mand en een vrucht. Rechts een dochter met een bloem in de han…

Simon Maris painted this woman on various occasions, holding a cigarette or a red fan. Perhaps she was a model, yet this painting could also be an actual portrait. For want of information, in the past it was variously titled as The Negress, Portrait of a …

A woman with her back turned to us piques our curiosity. What does she look like? What is she trying to protect? The darkness enveloping her only adds to the mystery. Moreover, the actual colour of her skin is unclear. Is she a white woman swathed in shad…

The court painter Jan Mijtens painted several portraits of members of the stadholder’s family. This is the portrait of Princess Maria of Orange, the youngest daughter of stadholder Frederik Hendrik. It was intended for her future husband, so that he could…

Ceruzarajz. Néger férfi portréja szemből, népies öltözékben, jellegzetes arcvonásokkal.

Afroamerikai férfi portréja.

Historisk händelse, namn med anknytning till föremålet: Berger, D, Historisk händelse, ort med anknytning till föremålet: null; Dubbelporträtt med två män. påklädd man med västeuropeiskt utseende lutar sig över och undervisar, avklädd man med afrikanskt u…

Lettering: The London dentist. R. Dighton del.; A London dentist extracting a tooth from a woman's mouth; her female companion and the dentist's black servant-boy (slave) are present. Coloured mezzotint after Robert Dighton, ca. 1784.

Jan Valckenburgh, portrayed in full regalia wearing armour and holding a commander’s baton, was twice director-general of Elmina on the African Gold Coast. His black houseboy wears a gold medal with a view of Fort Elmina, which is also depicted in the bac…

Egyptisk flicka från Nubien

Known in the 20th century as Frans Hals and his Family, this image falls within the category known as he group portrait. A widely used genre in Holland, the first known example by Hals is The Banquet of the Officers of the Haarlem Militia Company of Saint…

A surgeon and his black slave letting blood from a lady's arm. Oil painting by an English painter, ca. 1750/1790.

Letter: l.o. “1508”; r.o. Dürer monogram “AD” (from foreign hand?)

Letter: R. under the left portrait: “<...> 13/2 Philae” “<...>; r. under the right portrait:” Bischari Beduin Korosko 8/3 1882 "(pencil); Caption: r.u. “Rudolf Swoboda” (stamp?)