ADFAS Perth - The dark heart of Empire: Picturing Slavery
The triangular slave trade was seldom represented in art. However, many artists including Hogarth and Reynolds included slaves and slave owners in their portraits. This lecture looks at the abolitionist sympathies of artists which had to be delicately negotiated with patrons whose interests may have been founded on slavery. We then consider the ‘turn’ against slavery in England in the 1770s and 1780s leading to the Abolition of this trade in 1807 and the impact of this on the art of the period.
Location
State Library of WA, theatrette
25 Francis Road, Northbridge WA 6003
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