This Curation centres around the three 1869 portraits of black men painted by Thomas Stuart Smith, the founder of The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum in Scotland. As a culmination of an internship project with the Stirling Smith, this curation explores the paintings in light of black portraiture in the Victorian era and in the Stirling area.
Thomas Stuart Smith, Founder of the Institute 1874
Alfred Wilson Cox (1820–1890)
Oil on canvas
H 75 x W 62.1 cm
The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum
The Pipe of Freedom 1869
Thomas Stuart Smith (1813/1814–1869)
Oil on canvas
H 106.8 x W 78.7 cm
The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum
A Cuban Cigarette 1869
Thomas Stuart Smith (1813/1814–1869)
Oil on canvas
H 67 x W 56 cm
The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum
A Fellah of Kinneh 1869
Thomas Stuart Smith (1813/1814–1869)
Oil on canvas
H 96 x W 66 cm
The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum
