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This painting is part of a series of four created to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's baptism in St James's Church on 20th August 1773. Cugoano was one of the most prominent opponents of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade in eighteenth-century London. In 1787, he wrote Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery, the first book written by an African calling for the total abolition of the Transatlantic Chattel Slave Trade. He was also a member of the Sons of Africa alongside Olaudah Equiano. This significant but often overlooked figure in Black British history deserves to be recognised more widely and his contribution celebrated. The commissioning of these artworks by St James’s Church, the place of his baptism, looks to do this.
St James's Piccadilly
Title
The River
Date
2023
Medium
acrylic & dry pigment on board
Measurements
H 142 x W 120.9 cm
Accession number
3
Acquisition method
commissioned, 2023
Work type
Painting
