Prince Demah Barnes, 1773 - Portrait of William Duguid - fine art print

"Portrait of William Duguid" created by the old master Prince Demah Barnes as your personal artprint

This 18th century artwork Portrait of William Duguid was made by the male artist Prince Demah Barnes in 1773. The 240 year-old masterpiece measures the size: Canvas: 20 3/4 × 15 3/4 × 1 1/8 in (52,7 × 40 × 2,9 cm) Framed: 22 1/2 × 17 1/2 × 1 1/2 in (57,2 × 44,5 × 3,8 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the artist as the medium of the work of art. The artwork is included in the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Friends of the American Wing Fund, 2010 (public domain license). The creditline of the artwork is the following: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 2010. Moreover, alignment is portrait and has a ratio of 3 : 4, which means that the length is 25% shorter than the width.

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William Duguid, a Scottish immigrant textile importer based in Boston, is the subject of this engaging portrait. In 1773 he sat for Prince Demah, a painter of African descent, who was the "property" of merchant Henry Barnes. Impressed with his talent, Barnes took Demah to London in 1771, where he studied briefly with Robert Edge Pine. Demah’s story is extraordinary—he is the only enslaved artist working in colonial America whose paintings are known to have survived. To date, three portraits by him have been identified. When his Loyalist owners fled to England in 1775, the artist remained in Boston, identifying himself as "Prince Demah, limner" and a "free Negro." He enlisted in the Massachusetts militia in 1777 to fight against the British, but died of an unknown illness the following year.

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