Back in 1837, Bélizaire was the Black or mixed-race domestic servant of the Freys, a wealthy, White, French Quarter family. The enslaved 15-year-old was apparently such an important part of ...

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

The Met recently acquired “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a 19th-century Louisiana portrait with a secret: For over 100 years, the image of an enslaved youth was erased. This is his story.

Mechanics Hall in Worcester has unveiled three newly commissioned portraits, the first in the concert hall’s 167-year history to feature Black Americans. Activists Frederick Douglass, Sojourner ...

"Black American Portraits" was developed at the prestigious Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2020, at a time when "all the images we were seeing of Black people in the media were about pain and ...

Bélizaire and the Frey Children features an enslaved 15-year-old alongside three white children who were likely in his care. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Around 1837, Frederick Frey, a German ...

Through a miscommunication about wearing a red jacket, Richard Wilson knew it was “God’s intention” for him to paint Harold Alonza Black, Mary Blackwell Diallo and Kerry Rushin Miller. Newly ...

Gift Livingstone Sango is ecstatic after recently discovering his father’s painting portraying Jesus as a Black man. “My father used to draw Jesus as Black because God is for all of us. He is ...