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The Brangwyn Panels: painting the tangled abundance of the British Empire
© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: City & County of Swansea: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Collection
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Rediscovering Black Portraiture: unshackled, reimagined, seen
'James Hunter (Black Draftee)' by Alice Neel. re-creation by Peter Brathwaite (with photographic partner Sam Baldock). © Peter Brathwaite. Image credit: Peter Brathwaite
StoryRediscovering Black Portraiture: unshackled, reimagined, seen
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On representing Mary Seacole: a Jamaican-Scottish war heroine
Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta: from captive to British celebrity (Cymraeg)
Sarah Forbes Bonetta. 1862, photograph by Camille Silvy (1834–1910). Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
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