A personal curation of artworks that reflect the lives and times of the Global Majority.
Mary Jane Seacole, née Grant 1869
Albert Charles Challen (1847–1881)
Oil on panel
H 24 x W 18 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
Mary Seacole (1805–1881)
Mary Seacole
Shirley Bassey (b.1937) with Her Mother Eliza-Jane Metcalfe (1901–1981)
Shirley Bassey (b.1937) and Sharon Bassey (b.1954)
Shirley Bassey (b.1937)
Shirley Bassey (b.1937)
Black Girls Walking in a Sunny Shower, Washington 1978
David Alan Redpath Michie (1928–2015)
Oil on canvas
H 44.4 x W 42 cm
The Fleming Collection
Portrait of a Jamaican Woman c.1937
Augustus Edwin John (1878–1961)
Oil on canvas
H 55.9 x W 45.7 cm
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
Portrait of a Jamaican Woman c.1937
Augustus Edwin John (1878–1961)
Oil on canvas
H 55.9 x W 45.7 cm
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
Jamaican Girl c.1956–1960
Dod Procter (1892–1972)
Oil on board
H 30 x W 24.5 cm
Royal Academy of Arts
Head of a Negro c.1935
Glyn Warren Philpot (1884–1937)
Oil on canvas
H 44.4 x W 36.8 cm
Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives
Bronze Woman
Victor Elford (1911–2003)
Oil on board
H 59 x W 47 cm
The Box (Plymouth Museums Galleries Archives)
Victor Elford (1911–2003)
Oil on board
H 76 x W 60 cm
The Box (Plymouth Museums Galleries Archives)
unknown artist
Bronze
H 50 x W 28 x D 30 cm
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
James Pinson Labulo Davies (1828–1906) and Sarah Forbes Bonetta (Sarah Davies) (1843–1880)
Sarah (Aina) Forbes Bonetta Davies (1843–1880)
James Pinson Labulo Davies (1828–1906) and Sarah Forbes Bonetta (Sarah Davies) (1843–1880)
Sarah Forbes Bonetta (Sarah Davies) (1843–1880)
John Giles Eccardt (1720–1779)
Oil on canvas
H 132 x W 130 cm
National Trust, Ham House
Ann De Lisle De Beauvoir (b.1631/1632) 1669
Henri Gascars (1634–1701) (circle of)
Oil on canvas
H 100.4 x W 88 cm
Guernsey Museums and Galleries
Still Life with Figures 17th C
Flemish School
Oil on canvas on board
H 175.2 x W 204 cm
York Museums Trust
Mary Helden (1726–1766) with a Dog and Her Black Page, 'Sambo' 1739
Charles Philips (1708–1747)
Oil on canvas
H 232.5 x W 147.5 cm
National Trust, Sprivers
Gilbert Soest (c.1605–1681)
Oil on canvas
H 59.5 x W 49.5 cm
Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library
A Young Girl with an Enslaved Servant and a Dog c.1725
Bartholomew Dandridge (1691–c.1754)
Oil on canvas
H 121.9 x W 121.9 cm
Yale Center for British Art
Girl with a Dog 1708
Philip Vilain (active 1694–1717)
Oil on canvas
H 108.7 x W 82.5 cm
The Bowes Museum
Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth 1682
Pierre Mignard I (1612–1695)
Oil on canvas
H 120.7 x W 95.3 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
West Indian Women of Color, with a Child and Black Servant c.1780
Agostino Brunias (c.1730–1796)
Oil on canvas
H 31.1 x W 25.1 cm
Yale Center for British Art
Portrait of a West Indian Girl
Stanley Royle (1888–1961)
Oil on canvas
H 49 x W 38 cm
Heritage Doncaster
A West Indian Girl c.1940
Augustus Edwin John (1878–1961)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 45.7 cm
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
A West Indian Girl c.1940
Augustus Edwin John (1878–1961)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 45.7 cm
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
A West Indian Flower Girl and Two Other Free Women of Color c.1769
Agostino Brunias (c.1730–1796)
Oil on canvas
H 31.8 x W 24.8 cm
Yale Center for British Art
A West Indian Girl c.1940
Augustus Edwin John (1878–1961)
Oil on canvas
H 61.5 x W 45.8 cm
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
West Indian Waitresses
West Indian Man of Color, Directing Two Carib Women with a Child c.1780
Agostino Brunias (c.1730–1796)
Oil on canvas
H 30.5 x W 25.1 cm
Yale Center for British Art
Free West Indian Dominicans c.1770
Agostino Brunias (c.1730–1796)
Oil on canvas
H 31.8 x W 24.8 cm
Yale Center for British Art
West Indian 1973
Winston Branch (b.1947)
Oil on canvas
H 105 x W 90.2 cm
Rugby Art Gallery and Museum Art Collections
The Black Boy c.1769
William Jones (active 1764–1782)
Oil on canvas
H 89.5 x W 70 cm
Victoria Art Gallery
Study of a Black Boy c.1827–c.1838
William Etty (1787–1849)
Oil on millboard
H 50.8 x W 36.8 cm
York Museums Trust
Alfred Edward Emslie (1848–1918)
Watercolour on paper
H 35.3 x W 25.7 cm
Royal Watercolour Society
A Boy and a Girl and a Black Page 1658
Anglo/Dutch School
Oil on canvas
H 139.5 x W 147.5 cm
National Trust, Oxburgh Hall
Laura de' Dianti with Her Black Page 16th C
Titian (c.1488–1576) (after)
Oil on canvas
H 114.5 x W 91.5 cm
National Trust, Hatchlands
Charles Seymour (1662–1748), 6th Duke of Somerset, KG, with a Black Page c.1690–1692
John Closterman (1660–1711)
Oil on canvas
H 207.5 x W 144 cm
National Trust, Petworth House
John Delaval (1756–1775), as an Archer, with a Black Page
William Bell (1740–1804)
Oil on canvas
H 91 x W 58.5 cm
National Trust, Seaton Delaval
Figure of a Black Servant in Livery
Gilbert Jackson (active 1615–1645) (circle of)
Oil on canvas
H 66 x W 58.5 cm
Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives
Two Jamaican Girls 1937
Augustus Edwin John (1878–1961)
Oil on canvas
H 76.2 x W 63.8 cm
Walker Art Gallery
Aboriginal Portrait
Aboriginal Peoples Go Hunting in a Rocky Ravine in Formosa c.1850
unknown artist
Gouache, pen, ink & gilt on card
H 39 x W 36.5 cm
Wellcome Collection
Mouth of the St John's River, Kaffraria, and Aboriginal Inhabitants c.1882
Marianne North (1830–1890)
Oil on board
H 35.4 x W 50.7 cm
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Aboriginal Peoples of Formosa Engaged in Hunting Deer and Ploughing the Field c.1850
unknown artist
Gouache, pen, ink & gilt on card
H 39 x W 36.5 cm
Wellcome Collection
Aboriginal Canoes Communicating with the 'Monarch' and the 'Tom Tough', 28 August 1855 1868
Thomas Baines (1820–1875)
Oil on canvas
H 45.8 x W 66 cm
National Maritime Museum
An Australian Aborigine
Aborigine 1962
Kenneth Leslie Rowell (1920–1999)
Oil on canvas
H 99 x W 76 cm
Wolfson College, University of Oxford
Head of a South American
Portrait of a North American Indian
Roderick Russell
Oil on hardboard
H 68 x W 50 cm
Bradford Museums and Galleries
Yellowhead, a North American Indian Medicine Man Aged 40 1920
William Langdon Kihn (1898–1957)
Pastel, crayon & pencil on paper (?)
H 63.5 x W 42.3 cm
Wellcome Collection
General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from a North American Indian c.1768
Benjamin West (1738–1820)
Oil on canvas
H 129.5 x W 106.5 cm
Derby Museums Trust
Albert Mad Plume, a North American Indian Medicine Man
William Langdon Kihn (1898–1957)
Pastel, crayon & pencil on paper (?)
H 60.5 x W 40.8 cm
Wellcome Collection
The Slave Trade (Slaves on the West Coast of Africa) c.1839–1840
François Auguste Biard (1799–1882)
Oil on canvas
H 162 x W 228.6 cm
Wilberforce House Museum
The Song of the Nubian Slave 1863
Frederick Goodall (1822–1904)
Oil on canvas
H 71.2 x W 92 cm
Royal Academy of Arts
Tobacco Plantation in S. Rhodesia
Female African Figure*
Two African Women 1949
Leon Underwood (1890–1975)
Charcoal & watercolour on paper
H 53.5 x W 38.5 cm
Jerwood Collection
Women Dancing in a Busy Street in a North African (?) Country 19th C (?)
unknown artist
Watercolour on paper
H 28.2 x W 67.5 cm
Wellcome Collection
B. Long
Acrylic & hair on paper
H 50 x W 60 cm
University of Reading Art Collection
Charles Henri Cordier (1827–1905)
Bronze
H 78 x W 33 cm
National Trust, Ickworth
West African Woman Carrying a Bowl
Victor Elford (1911–2003)
Oil on board
H 58 x W 45 cm
The Box (Plymouth Museums Galleries Archives)
unknown artist
Ebony
H 16.5 x W 11.5 x D 10 cm
Royal Engineers Museum, Library and Archive, Gillingham
African Woman
An African Boy Riding a Billy Goat 15th C (?)
Andrea Riccio (1470–1532) (attributed to)
Bronze
H 21.7 x W 22.1 cm
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Leenu, Portrait of an African Girl 1942
Richard Procter Dugdale (1913–1989)
Oil on board
H 46 x W 36 cm
Kirklees Museums and Galleries
Portrait of an African Girl 1957
Peter de Francia (1921–2012)
Oil on canvas
H 178 x W 131 cm
Museums Sheffield
African Girl No. 2 1965
Carel Victor Morlais Weight (1908–1997)
Oil on canvas
H 101.6 x W 76.2 cm
Nottingham City Museums
African Girl
African? scene: village and coast 1930 - 1990
Bandre (active 20th C)
Oil on board
H 47 x W 59 cm
University of St Andrews
Ronald Moody (1900–1984)
Bronze
H 40.5 x W 23 x D 27.5 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
Paul Robeson (1898–1976)
Paul Robeson (1898–1976)
Paul Robeson's Son 1938
Jacob Epstein (1880–1959)
Patinated bronze
H 31.4 x W 25.5 x D 22.5 cm
Museums Sheffield
Paul Robeson (1898–1976) c.1940
Jacob Epstein (1880–1959)
Bronze
H 34 x W 21 x D 30 cm
Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service
Sonia Boyce (b.1962)
Photographs, black and white, on paper, photocopies on paper, acrylic paint, ballpoint pen, crayon and felt-tip pen
H 125 x W 360 cm
Tate
Sportswear (Achilles Street) 2011
Thomas J. Price (b.1981)
Bronze & Perspex with integral wooden plinth
H 171 x W 36 cm
Government Art Collection
John Delaval (1756–1775), as an Archer, with a Black Page, in a Landscape Setting 1770
William Bell (1740–1804)
Oil on canvas
H 231 x W 145 cm
National Trust, Seaton Delaval
John Wootton (c.1682–1764)
Oil on canvas
H 359 x W 345 cm
Tate
De negro y india se produce un lobo
Mexican School
Oil on canvas
H 103 x W 147 cm
Leicester Arts and Museums Service
Negro Dancers – Victoria, Ora and Serafina
William Russell Flint (1880–1969)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 76.2 cm
Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collection (Dundee City Council)
Negro in White c.1922
Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883–1937)
Oil on canvas
H 76.2 x W 63.8 cm
Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collection (Dundee City Council)
Ornamental Panels of Two of the Four Continents: Africa
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (1734–1781) (attributed to)
Oil on panel
H 125.5 x W 56 cm
National Trust, Hinton Ampner
Finial in the Form of an African Man's Head 1848–1852
Angelo Giordani
Bronze
H 21.5 x W 7 x D 9.5 cm
National Trust, Kingston Lacy
Dod Procter (1892–1972)
Oil on canvas
H 60 x W 51 cm
RWA (Royal West of England Academy)
Dod Procter (1892–1972)
Oil on canvas
H 59 x W 49.5 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Sketch of a Native Girl, Burma 1922–1927
Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864–1933)
Oil on canvas
H 51 x W 40.5 cm
National Trust for Scotland, Broughton House & Garden
Gabriel in St Lucia 1950–1960
Dod Procter (1892–1972)
Oil on canvas
H 46 x W 36 cm
Penlee House Gallery & Museum
Dod Procter (1892–1972)
Oil on hardboard
H 29.3 x W 24.6 cm
The Box (Plymouth Museums Galleries Archives)
African Head (Dahomy Princess) 1928–1929
Dora Gordine (1895–1991)
Plaster
H 41.2 x W 13.8 x D 26.5 cm
Dorich House Museum, Kingston University
The Sunday Shirt c.1957
Dod Procter (1892–1972)
Oil on canvas
H 54 x W 43.2 cm
Royal Academy of Arts
Caribbean Family in Trafalgar Square, London 1950–1962
Harold Dearden (1888–1962)
Oil on canvas
H 76.5 x W 73.6 cm
Museum of London
Alethea Garstin (1894–1978)
Oil on canvas
H 22 x W 26.5 cm
RWA (Royal West of England Academy)
British Empire Panel (7) West Indies c.1930
Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956)
Oil on canvas
H 365.7 x W 396 cm
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
British Empire Panel (13) East Africa c.1930
Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956)
Oil on canvas
H 365.7 x W 396 cm
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
Suni
A Pathan Sowar, 25th Cavalry (Frontier Force) c.1908
Leila Kathleen Williamson (b.c.1859)
Oil on canvas
H 55.5 x W 44.1 cm
National Army Museum
A Sick Tribal Chief Consulting His Witch Doctor and Admits to Having Eaten a German Missionary
Frederick Garnett
Pen & ink on paper (?)
H 20.4 x W 28.4 cm
Wellcome Collection
Tribal Village of Huts in a Cliff-Bound Landscape, 1931 (Africa) 1931
Catherine Rosabelle Chamney (1894–1966)
Watercolour on paper
H 21.5 x W 33.5 cm
Bushey Museum and Art Gallery
Tribal Gathering 1971
James Tytler (b.1948)
Oil on canvas
H 127 x W 148.8 cm
Art & Heritage Collections, Robert Gordon University
unknown artist
Gouache, pen & ink on card
H 21.6 x W 17.8 cm
Wellcome Collection
The Empire's Copra
The Empire's Sugar Cane
Katherine Dunham Dance Company Rehearsing, Empire Theatre, Glasgow 1952
Margaret Morris (1891–1980)
Oil on canvas
H 66 x W 96.7 cm
Perth & Kinross Council
Picking Empire-Grown Tea
The Adoration of the Magi c.1518
Jan van Doornik (c.1470–c.1527) (attributed to)
Oil on panel
H 91.5 x W 60 cm
National Trust, Stourhead
The Adoration of the Magi c.1515
Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450–1516) (attributed to)
Oil on panel
H 100 x W 73 cm
National Trust, Petworth House
A Sergeant of a Cavalry Regiment c.1830
unknown artist
Oil on canvas
H 85.6 x W 65 cm
National Army Museum
Soldier of the King's African Rifles, Ceremonial Dress 1962
J. Gilson
Oil on canvas
H 53 x W 45 cm
The Royal Logistic Corps Museum
I Was There IV
I Was There V
This is General Gordon – I have forgotten was there a past?
John Byrne (b.1940)
Oil on board
H 121 x W 270 cm
Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture
Between the Two my Heart is Balanced 1991
Lubaina Himid (b.1954)
Acrylic on canvas
H 121.8 x W 152.4 cm
Tate
Onward Christian Soldiers 1987
Mowbray Odonkor (b.1962)
Acrylic on paper
H 152 x W 182 cm
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre
Sir John Chardin 1711
British School
Oil on canvas
H 138 x W 138 cm
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
Sheikh in Zamibal 1951
Terence McCaw (1913–1978)
Oil on canvas
H 45.7 x W 40.6 cm
Roebuck Collection
Woman's Head 1991
Patrick Martin (b.1958)
Oil & distemper on paper
H 105 x W 75 cm
Leicestershire County Council Artworks Collection
James Howe, Benjamin Tilden and Richard John Thompson 1729–1739
Jacopo Amigoni (c.1682–1752)
Oil on canvas
H 144 x W 193 cm
York Museums Trust
William Mitcheson Timlin (1893–1943)
Oil on canvas
H 101 x W 151 cm
Loughborough University
After the Lion Hunt (W. F. Webb and Captain W. Codrington, South Africa) 1857
Alfred Corbould (c.1821–1874)
Oil on canvas
H 267 x W 334 cm
Newstead Abbey
View on the Kwanga River with a Native in a Canoe 1884–1894
Henry Bailey (1848–1933)
Oil on canvas
H 22 x W 33.5 cm
Government Art Collection
A Homage to Velázquez about 1692-1700
Luca Giordano (1634–1705)
Oil on canvas
H 205.2 x W 182.2 cm
The National Gallery, London
Monkey dey Chop, Baboon dey Cry 1984
Tam Joseph (b.1947)
Acrylic on canvas
H 155 x W 225 cm
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre
Bob Jones, Temne Boy, Freetown, West Africa 1941
J. Hays (active 1942–1961)
Oil on canvas
H 35.6 x W 25 cm
Roebuck Collection
Scenery and Events in South Africa 1852
Thomas Baines (1820–1875)
Oil on paper
H 65 x W 51.5 cm
King's Lynn Museums
A Fellah of Kinneh 1869
Thomas Stuart Smith (1813–1869)
Oil on canvas
H 96 x W 66 cm
The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum
An Egyptian Fellahah with Her Child c.1830–1840
Achille-Constant-Théodore-Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807–1879) (attributed to)
Oil on canvas
H 33.2 x W 24.3 cm
Paintings Collection
A Man Cooking Meat on an Indian Barbeque 19th C (?)
unknown artist
Gouache on mica
H 14.3 x W 11 cm
Wellcome Collection
Khadija Shaw (b.1966)
Oil on paper
H 41.5 x W 29.3 cm
Down County Museum
A Man Sitting on Top of a Device for Cooking (?) 19th C (?)
unknown artist
Gouache & watercolour on paper
H 5.3 x W 8.3 cm
Wellcome Collection
Godfried Schalcken (1643–1706) (after)
Oil on panel
H 41 x W 31 cm
Colchester and Ipswich Museums Service: Ipswich Borough Council Collection
Nigerian Man Playing an Instrument 1962
Richard Procter Dugdale (1913–1989)
Oil on hardboard
H 49.5 x W 45.2 cm
Oxford Brookes University
Nigerian Woman Carrying Baby
James Lawrence Isherwood (1917–1989)
Oil on panel
H 34 x W 29 cm
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Nigerian Girl
Benedict Chukwukadibia Enwonwu (1917–1994)
Oil on canvas
H 59 x W 50.5 cm
Luton Culture
unknown artist
Wood
H 42 x W 10.5 x D 8 cm
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
Gun Drill: Fort Mombasa, Kenya 1943
Violet Muriel Baber Mimpriss (1895–1987)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 60.9 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Kenyan Soldier
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) 2000
Anne H. Mackintosh (b.1944)
Oil on canvas
H 152.4 x W 121.9 cm
Glasgow Caledonian University
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013)
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013)
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013), at Nineteen 1986
Lex Braes (b.1956)
Oil on canvas
H 208.6 x W 175.6 cm
Museums & Galleries Edinburgh – City of Edinburgh Council
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) 2008
Ian Homer Walters (1930–2006)
Bronze
H 68.5 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013), President of the Republic of South Africa
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013)
Jerita, 2010, Johannesburg, South Africa
'Obuasi' Loading Cocoa at Accra, Ghana
John Stobart (b.1929)
Oil on canvas
H 71.1 x W 101.6 cm
Merseyside Maritime Museum
Portrait of Female Berber – Morocco
Acrobats, Marrakesh, Morocco 1936
James McBey (1883–1959)
Oil on canvas
H 81.5 x W 66 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
Ouarzazate, Morocco c.1935
James McBey (1883–1959)
Oil on canvas
H 70.5 x W 91.7 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
Male Figure
Male Figure
Container for Nkisi Force (with Headdress)
Container for Nkisi Force
Nkisi Force Container
unknown artist
Pen, ink & gouache on paper (?)
H 42.9 x W 58.1 cm
Wellcome Collection
Musician and Clown – Le grand ballet de Senegal
The Wife of a Malian Man 19th C (?)
unknown artist
Gouache on mica
H 11.5 x W 7.6 cm
Wellcome Collection
Mali Carving of Three Male Figures
Sam Baker (b.1984)
Mixed media on board
H 157.5 x W 96.6 cm
Southampton Solent University
The Capture of Tubabecelong, Gambia 1866
Louis William Desanges (1822–1906)
Oil on canvas
H 132 x W 183 cm
Penlee House Gallery & Museum
Captain Atal: Served at Keren, Eritrea 1941
Henry Marvell Carr (1894–1970)
Oil on canvas
H 111.7 x W 86.3 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
A Sudan Cotton Field
A Niger Fisherman
Bust of an Oba
Memorial Head*
Richard Procter Dugdale (1913–1989)
Oil on hardboard
H 46 x W 30.5 cm
Oxford Brookes University
Yoruba Offering Bowl
A Child of the Orient 1825–1875
British School
Oil on board
H 25.4 x W 20 cm
Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives
Court Attendant*
Male Ancestral Figure*
Efik Carved Head
The Missionary Boy c.1805
William Etty (1787–1849)
Oil on millboard
H 64.1 x W 40.4 cm
York Museums Trust
Mrs Fanny Eaton (Profile Left) 1859
Simeon Solomon (1840–1905)
Graphite on paper
H 14.9 x W 13.1 cm
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Mrs Fanny Eaton 1859
Simeon Solomon (1840–1905)
Graphite on paper
H 14.7 x W 13.4 cm
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Fanny Eaton 1861
Joanna Mary Wells (1831–1861)
Oil on paper laid to linen
H 17.1 x W 13.7 cm
Yale Center for British Art
The Beloved ('The Bride') 1865–6
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)
Oil on canvas
H 82.5 x W 76.2 cm
Tate
Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando 1879
Edgar Degas (1834–1917)
Oil on canvas
H 117.2 x W 77.5 cm
The National Gallery, London
Melancholy Negro 1936
Glyn Warren Philpot (1884–1937)
Oil on canvas
H 129.5 x W 74.2 cm
Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries
Glyn Warren Philpot (1884–1937)
Oil on canvas
H 99 x W 76 cm
Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries
Model Standing against Blue Wall 1962
Craigie Ronald John Aitchison (1926–2009)
Oil on canvas
H 66 x W 55.9 cm
Tate
Georgeous Macaulay in a Sou'wester 1976
Craigie Ronald John Aitchison (1926–2009)
Oil on canvas
H 76.4 x W 63.3 cm
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
The Family of Sir William Young c.1767–1769
Johann Zoffany (1733–1810)
Oil on canvas
H 114.3 x W 167.8 cm
Walker Art Gallery
The Death of Edward Colston c.1844
Richard Jeffreys Lewis (1822/1823–1883)
Oil on canvas
H 100.6 x W 126.5 cm
Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives
Harvesting the Sugar-Cane in Minas Geraes, Brazil c.1873
Marianne North (1830–1890)
Oil on board
H 35 x W 25 cm
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Reaping Sugar Canes in the West Indies
Getting in the Sugar Cane, River Nile c.1875
Frederick Goodall (1822–1904)
Oil on canvas
H 80.5 x W 126.5 cm
Grundy Art Gallery
Richard Austin (active 2016–2018)
Cold cast bronze
H 189 x W 79.5 x D 68 cm
Northampton Borough Council
Rifleman Thaman Gurung, VC, 1/5th Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) c.1945
unknown artist
Oil on canvas
H 57 x W 43 cm
National Army Museum
Regimental Sergeant Major Sulimani, 3rd Battalion, King’s African Rifles c.1939
Dorothy King (active c.1939)
Oil on board
H 61 x W 40 cm
National Army Museum
Askari, Corporal of the 5th Kings African Rifles 1963
Gaby Remnant
Oil on canvas
H 70 x W 55 cm
Cheshire Military Museum
Sergeant Ali Jebba, Royal West African Frontier Force c.1945
unknown artist
Oil on canvas
H 76.5 x W 61.5 cm
National Army Museum
Captain Effendi Juma, 3rd Battalion, King’s African Rifles c.1939
Dorothy King (active c.1939)
Oil on board
H 41 x W 31 cm
National Army Museum
Troops of the Royal West African Frontier Force in the Arakan, Burma, c.1944 1991
Hugh Ralph Micklem (1918–2009)
Oil on canvas
H 72 x W 92 cm
National Army Museum
A Hottentot Woman with Prominent Buttocks Due to an Abnormal Accumulation of Fat
unknown artist
Watercolour on paper (?)
H 27.6 x W 21.5 cm
Wellcome Collection
Kaffirs and Rebel Hottentots Attacking a Wagon Train 1854
Thomas Baines (1820–1875)
Oil on canvas
H 38 x W 61 cm
King's Lynn Museums
Caton Smith
Watercolour on paper (?)
H 30.6 x W 43 cm
Wellcome Collection
unknown artist
Oil on canvas
H 201.3 x W 235.6 cm
Yale Center for British Art
Figure of a Chained Captive, after Pietro Tacca's Enslaved Figures on the Monument to Ferdinand I de' Medici in Leghorn, Italy
Figure of an Enslaved African
Study of a Mulatto Woman 1820–1825
French School
Oil on canvas
H 55.9 x W 24.5 cm
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Robert Gavin (1827–1883)
Oil on canvas
H 63.5 x W 76.5 cm
Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collection (Dundee City Council)
OLAUDAH EQUIANO – African, slave, author, abolitionist
Olaudah Equiano ('Gustavus Vassa') published 1789
Daniel Orme (c.1766–c.1832)
Stipple engraving on paper
H 15.6 x W 9.5 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
OLAUDAH EQUIANO – African, slave, author, abolitionist
Liberty Sculpture
Clifford Hooper Rowe (1904–1989)
Oil on board
H 122 x W 61 cm
People's History Museum
An Egyptian Baker and His Assistant at the Door of a Cake-Shop c.1830–1840
Achille-Constant-Théodore-Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807–1879) (attributed to)
Oil on canvas
H 21.3 x W 27.3 cm
Paintings Collection
Child in Pushchair 1970
Clifford Hooper Rowe (1904–1989)
Oil on board
H 64 x W 122 cm
People's History Museum
The Negress
Joan Miró (1893–1983)
Oil on canvas
H 129.5 x W 194.3 cm
Tate
Thomas Greig (d.1973)
Oil on board
H 49 x W 38.5 cm
Hartlepool Museums and Heritage Service
A Negress 1938
Claude Rogers (1907–1979)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 45.5 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
Esther Blaikie Mackinnon (1885–1934)
Oil on canvas
H 51.2 x W 41 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
Sokari Douglas Camp (b.1958)
Is Famine Ever Permissible? Compulsory Migration Ethiopia 1991
Eve Goldsmith Coxeter (b.1928)
Oil on paper
H 101 x W 129 cm
British Red Cross Museum and Archives
Black Singer 1969
Clifford Hooper Rowe (1904–1989)
Oil on board
H 97 x W 152 cm
People's History Museum
The Hunted Slaves 1861
Richard Ansdell (1815–1885)
Oil on canvas
H 184 x W 308 cm
Walker Art Gallery
The Black Boy c.1844
William Lindsay Windus (1822–1907)
Oil on canvas
H 76.1 x W 63.5 cm
Walker Art Gallery
David II of Abyssinia (1508–1540) late 16th C–early 17th C
Northern Italian School
Oil (?) on walnut panel
H 22.8 x W 16.8 cm
Walker Art Gallery
Negro Sculptor 1913
Alfred Aaron Wolmark (1877–1961)
Oil on canvas
H 91.9 x W 72 cm
Birmingham Museums Trust
Jamaican Series – Bathers 1961
Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook (1907–1978)
Tempera on board
H 24 x W 36 cm
Sir Francis Cook Collection
Jamaican Landscape 1952
John Minton (1917–1957)
Oil on canvas
H 82 x W 102 cm
St Anne's College, University of Oxford
The Jamaican Doll 1962
Michael Lester Leszczynski (1906–1972)
Oil on board
H 65 x W 55 cm
National Trust, The Argory
Baron Nagell’s Running Footman c.1795
Ozias Humphry (1742–1810)
Pastel on paper
H 72.5 x W 61 cm
Tate
Bill Morris 2005
John Keane (b.1954)
Oil on inkjet printed cotton mounted on canvas
H 115 x W 96.3 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
In the House of My Father 1996–1997
Donald G. Rodney (1961–1998)
Chromogenic print on aluminium
H 122 x W 153 cm
Tate
Guadaloupe Head 1928
Dora Gordine (1895–1991)
Bronze on fabric & wooden base
H 36 x W 23 x D 23 cm
Tate
No Woman, No Cry 1998
Chris Ofili (b.1968)
Oil paint, acrylic paint, graphite, polyester resin, printed paper, glitter, map pins and elephant dung on canvas
H 243.8 x W 182.8 cm
Tate
Double Captain Shit and the Legend of the Black Stars 1997
Chris Ofili (b.1968)
Oil paint, acrylic paint, printed paper, glitter, map pins, polyester resin and elephant dung on canvas
H 244 x W 183 cm
Tate
Chris Ofili 1991
Chris Ofili (b.1968)
Oil on canvas
H 101.9 x W 44.2 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
Popcorn Shells 1995
Chris Ofili (b.1968)
Paper collage, oil, polyester resin, map-pins & elephant dung on linen & two elephant dung props
H 182.9 x W 121.9 cm
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre
Tam Joseph (b.1947)
Acrylic on canvas
H 124.5 x W 164 cm
Bradford Museums and Galleries
Learning to Walk 1988
Tam Joseph (b.1947)
Sand, acrylic & pigment on canvas
H 201 x W 386 cm
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre
Freedom and Change 1984
Lubaina Himid (b.1954)
Wood, textiles, cardboard, paint, graphite, coloured pencil, chalk & ink
H 309.6 x W 590 x D 6 cm
Tate
My Parents, Their Children 1986
Lubaina Himid (b.1954)
Acrylic & mixed media on canvas
H 151 x W 184 cm
Birmingham Museums Trust
Drowned Orchard: Secret Boatyard 2014
Lubaina Himid (b.1954)
Acrylic paint on wood
H 300 x W 450 x D 100 cm
Tate
Lubaina Himid (b.1954)
Acrylic on canvas
H 183 x W 244 cm
Government Art Collection
Hannibal's Sister 1989
Lubaina Himid (b.1954)
Acrylic on canvas
H 183 x W 183 cm
Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library
An Altarpiece for the Altar of a Queen Mother 18th C–19th C
unknown artist
Brass
H 21.3 x W 26.7 cm
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Head of a Girl 1971
Craigie Ronald John Aitchison (1926–2009)
Oil on canvas
H 76.5 x W 64 cm
Rugby Art Gallery and Museum Art Collections
African Scene* 1968
Sinclair
Oil on canvas
H 63 x W 90 cm
Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Man Drinking Coffee 2019
Joy Labinjo (b.1994)
Oil & spray on canvas
H 140 x W 160 cm
Government Art Collection
Alton Peters 1983
Craigie Ronald John Aitchison (1926–2009)
Oil on canvas
H 76 x W 63 cm
Government Art Collection
Lizzie Jones (b.1972)
Acrylic & wax on canvas
H 107.3 x W 112.8 cm
Southampton City Art Gallery
Half-Length Portrait of a Black Man
William Charles Penn (1877–1968)
Oil on board
H 91.4 x W 71.1 cm
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
A Young Black (?Francis Barber)
Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) (manner of)
Oil on canvas
H 75.6 x W 87.9 cm
Tate
A Young Black Man (?Francis Barber)
Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) (manner of)
Oil on canvas
H 45.1 x W 36.2 cm
Tate
Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) (after)
Oil on canvas
H 47 x W 37 cm
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
Head of a Black Man 1929
William Charles Penn (1877–1968)
Oil on canvas
H 68.5 x W 55.8 cm
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
Portrait Study, Head of a Black Man
William Charles Penn (1877–1968)
Oil on board
H 60.9 x W 50.8 cm
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
A Bald Man Wearing a Red Loin Cloth Holding a Club and a Black Cloth 19th C (?)
unknown artist
Gouache on mica
H 12.6 x W 9.7 cm
Wellcome Collection
A Man Wearing a Loin Cloth and a Black Shawl Holding Musical Instruments in Both Hands 19th C (?)
unknown artist
Gouache on mica
H 12.5 x W 9.6 cm
Wellcome Collection
A Bald Man Wearing a Loin Cloth Holding a Wooden Club and a Black Piece of Cloth 19th C (?)
unknown artist
Gouache on mica
H 14 x W 10.7 cm
Wellcome Collection
A Man Wearing a Green Cap with a Black Shawl Draped over His Shoulder Holding Two Sticks (?) 19th C (?)
unknown artist
Gouache on mica
H 12.7 x W 9.6 cm
Wellcome Collection
Go West Young Man 1987
Keith Piper (b.1960)
14 photographs, gelatin silver print on paper mounted onto board
H 84 x W 56 cm
Tate
Black Girls Walking in a Sunny Shower, Washington 1980
David Alan Redpath Michie (1928–2015)
Oil on canvas
H 91.4 x W 91.4 cm
Perth & Kinross Council
James Northcote (1746–1831) (attributed to)
Oil on canvas
H 90 x W 77 cm
Dr Johnson's House
Figure of a Māori Man 19th C
unknown artist
Kauri gum
H 9.3 x W 6 x D 6.7 cm
Hartlepool Museums and Heritage Service
Salomon Trismosin (after)
Watercolour on paper (?)
H 40 x W 25.2 cm
Wellcome Collection
A Black Landsknecht and Bystanders c.1510–1520
German School
Oil on panel
H 92 x W 52 cm
National Trust, Waddesdon Manor
Man on a Couch 1976
Colin Hall (b.1952)
Ink & emulsion on etching plate on board
H 29.3 x W 42.2 cm
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre
The Oil Stove 1950s
Elisabeth Blackstone Smith (b.1937)
Oil on paper
H 137.2 x W 76.2 cm
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
A Barotse Woman 1928
Neville Lewis (1895–1972)
Oil on panel
H 40.8 x W 30.4 cm
Manchester Art Gallery
Chris Ofili (b.1968) 1989
Susan Thomas
Acrylic on canvas
H 76 x W 58 cm
Leicester Arts and Museums Service
Music of the Steppes 2000
Bazarbay Serekeev (b.1942)
Pigment on canvas laid on hardboard with metal
H 47.5 x W 58.3 cm
Horniman Museum and Gardens
Ngairo Rakai Hikuroa 1878
Gottfried Lindauer (1839–1926)
Oil on canvas
H 96 x W 79.5 cm
The Pitt Rivers Museum
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington, and a Servant 1782
Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)
Oil on canvas
H 236.2 x W 142.2 cm
Yale Center for British Art
The Moorish Maiden's First Love c.1879
Robert Gavin (1827–1883)
Oil on canvas
H 92.3 x W 65.2 cm
Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture
Miss Victoria 1983
Elaine Steele (active 1983–1984)
Oil & watercolour on paper
H 83.5 x W 63 cm
Leicestershire County Council Artworks Collection
Henry Thomas 1934–1935
Glyn Warren Philpot (1884–1937)
Oil on canvas
H 52.5 x W 36.4 cm
Pallant House Gallery
The Young Catechist 1827
Henry Hoppner Meyer (1782–1847)
Oil on canvas
H 91.5 x W 71 cm
Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives
Variation on ‘Othello’ c.1933–1934
Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942)
Oil on canvas
H 110 x W 73 cm
Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives
Untitled 1986 1986
Keith Piper (b.1960)
Emulsion on canvas
H 218.4 x W 213.4 cm
Manchester Art Gallery
Pink Umbrella 2016
Robert Pugh
Multi-plate colour etching on paper
H 31 x W 25 cm
Scarborough Museums Trust
Sokari Douglas Camp (b.1958)
Steel & paint
H 175 x W 72 x D 55 cm
Leicester Arts and Museums Service
Benedict Chukwukadibia Enwonwu (1917–1994)
Ebony
H 33 x W 15 cm
Government Art Collection
Monotony 1948
Benedict Chukwukadibia Enwonwu (1917–1994)
Oil on canvas
H 91 x W 71 cm
University of Chichester, Otter Gallery
Head of a Negress in a Simulated Opening 1667
Gabriel Metsu (1629–1667) (attributed to)
Oil on panel
H 23 x W 18 cm
National Trust, Polesden Lacey
The Mother of Sisera 1861
Albert Joseph Moore (1841–1893)
Oil on canvas
H 29.4 x W 22.5 cm
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery
The Laughing Christ 1991
Eugene Palmer (b.1955)
Oil on canvas
H 137.1 x W 221.3 cm
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre
Salon 1971
Richard Parsons (1925–2000)
Oil on board
H 83 x W 60 cm
Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum
Dancing Scene in the West Indies 1764–1796
Agostino Brunias (c.1730–1796)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 66 cm
Tate
Negress in a White and Blue Dress
Solomon Steel
Oil on board
H 60.3 x W 60.3 cm
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds
De español y negra se produce un mulato
Mexican School
Oil on canvas
H 104 x W 145 cm
Leicester Arts and Museums Service
Neville Lewis (1895–1972)
Oil on canvas
H 60.9 x W 50.8 cm
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
Allegory III 1987
Amal Ghosh (b.1933)
Acrylic on canvas
H 127 x W 153 cm
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre
Selika 1877–1879
Luigi Pagani (1837–1904)
Bronze & marble
H 86.5 x W 50 x D 28 cm
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
Ann Zingha 1830s
Achille Devéria (1800–1857)
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
H 48.8 x W 35.8 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
Phyllis Purser (1893–1990)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 50.7 cm
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
Figure of a Māori Woman 19th C
unknown artist
Kauri gum
H 8.6 x W 5.8 x D 6.7 cm
Hartlepool Museums and Heritage Service
Portrait of a Young Black Girl
Arthur Bell (1897–1995)
Oil on board
H 39.6 x W 32 cm
Poole Museum Service
Dark Girl 1935
James Proudfoot (1908–1971)
Oil on canvas
H 50 x W 40 cm
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
William Patrick Roberts (1895–1980)
Oil on canvas
H 59 x W 48.5 cm
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Tituba Being Borne Out of the Flames 1994–1996
Tova McKenzie-Bassant (b.1961)
Oil on canvas
H 63.5 x W 60 cm
Lewisham College
Sonia Boyce (b.1962)
Watercolour, pastel and crayon on paper
H 123.8 x W 183 cm
Tate
Eugene Palmer (b.1955)
Oil on canvas over board
H 84 x W 82 cm
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Portrait of a Young Ethiopian Woman before 2003
unknown artist
Paint on canvas
H 68.5 x W 50 cm
Horniman Museum and Gardens
Helen D. Kiddall (1888–1980)
Oil on wood
H 65.5 x W 49.5 cm
Bradford Museums and Galleries
Primavera in Africa 1946
Helen D. Kiddall (1888–1980)
Oil on board
H 31 x W 24.5 cm
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
New World c.1950–c.1960
Helen D. Kiddall (1888–1980)
Oil on board
H 34 x W 24 cm
Colchester and Ipswich Museums Service: Ipswich Borough Council Collection
African Mother c.1950–c.1960
Helen D. Kiddall (1888–1980)
Oil on board
H 32 x W 25 cm
Colchester and Ipswich Museums Service: Ipswich Borough Council Collection
Winifred Hope Thomson (1864–1944)
Oil on canvas
H 37 x W 28 cm
National Trust, Dorneywood
A Dancing Couple from the Pujari Caste c.1840
unknown artist
Gouache & gold on paper (?)
H 38.3 x W 28.6 cm
Wellcome Collection
Judi 1974–1975
Craigie Ronald John Aitchison (1926–2009)
Oil on canvas
H 76 x W 68 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
Nina with Flowers 1957
Jack Hughes
Oil on canvas
H 104 x W 84 cm
Leicestershire County Council Artworks Collection
Face 1958
James Lawrence Isherwood (1917–1989)
Oil on canvas
H 90 x W 89 cm
Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Irene Welburn (active 1936–1955)
Oil on canvas
H 66 x W 56 cm
Wolverhampton Arts and Heritage
unknown artist
Oil, sand & glitter on board
H 39.5 x W 26.5 cm
Goodenough College
A Young Archer c.1639–c.1640
Govaert Flinck (1615–1660)
Oil on oak panel
H 66.2 x W 50.8 cm
The Wallace Collection
John Minton (1917–1957)
Oil on canvas
H 71.3 x W 56.3 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
Ade Suberu (b.1968)
Mixed media on board
H 153 x W 107 cm
Wolverhampton Arts and Heritage
Portrait of an Unknown Black Man 1886
Arturo Ferrari (1861–1932)
Oil on canvas
H 35.2 x W 28.5 cm
Guernsey Museums and Galleries
Standing Figure with African Masks 2018
Claudette Johnson (b.1959)
Pastel and gouache on paper
H 151.5 x W 122 cm
Tate
The Attendant on the Bath 1854
John Frederick Lewis (1804–1876)
Oil on panel
H 30 x W 24.7 cm
Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library
Male Fetish Figure 1870
unknown artist
Wood, copper alloy, glass, resin, human tooth & string
H 64 x W 12.5 x D 14 cm
Horniman Museum and Gardens
Female Fetish Figure 1870
unknown artist
Wood, copper alloy, bead, glass, resin, human tooth & string
H 68.5 x W 15 x D 14 cm
Horniman Museum and Gardens
Marriage A-la-Mode: 4, The Toilette about 1743
William Hogarth (1697–1764)
Oil on canvas
H 70.5 x W 90.8 cm
The National Gallery, London
John Currie (1883–1914)
Oil on panel
H 44 x W 33 cm
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
A Young Woman probably 2nd C–3rd C
Greco-Roman School
Probably encaustic on wood
H 42 x W 22 cm
The National Gallery, London
Ryan Giggs (b.1973) 2007
Peter Douglas Edwards (b.1955)
Oil on canvas
H 92.4 x W 69.1 cm
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales
Othello, the Moor of Venice 1826
James Northcote (1746–1831)
Oil on canvas
H 76.2 x W 63.5 cm
Manchester Art Gallery
Northwest Coast Carving 19th C
unknown artist
Wood, shell, skin & paint
H 109.3 cm
American Museum & Gardens
Ira Aldridge (1807–1867), as Othello in 'Othello' by William Shakespeare c.1848
British School
Oil on canvas
H 42.8 x W 34.4 cm
Theatre Collection
Ira Aldridge (1807–1867), as Mungo in 'The Padlock' by Isaac Bickerstaffe c.1833
Thomas Charles Wageman (1787–1863)
Oil on canvas
H 44.5 x W 34.5 cm
Theatre Collection
Othello's Despair c.1851
Alexander Christie (1807–1860)
Oil on canvas
H 94 x W 71 cm
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds
Othello 1880–1881
Edouard Frederic Wilhelm Richter (1844–1913)
Oil on canvas
H 72 x W 87 cm
Kirklees Museums and Galleries
King Sunny Ade 20th C
unknown artist
Pigment on paper laid on wood
H 58.5 x W 46 cm
Horniman Museum and Gardens
T. Arts (Dr) (active 20th C)
Paint on canvas & wood
H 45.2 x W 35.5 cm
Horniman Museum and Gardens
T. Arts (Dr) (active 20th C)
Paint on canvas & wood
H 56.8 x W 43.8 cm
Horniman Museum and Gardens
Crowd of Figures in a Landscape
unknown artist
Pigment on parchment
H 14.9 x W 20.4 cm
Horniman Museum and Gardens
T. Arts (Dr) (active 20th C)
Pigment on paper
H 58 x W 53 cm
Horniman Museum and Gardens
Alaba Arts (active 20th C)
Paint on hardboard
H 31.4 x W 22 cm
Horniman Museum and Gardens
Date Palm and Negro Hut near Craigton, Jamaica c.1872
Marianne North (1830–1890)
Oil on board
H 25 x W 17 cm
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Piper, 42nd Deoli Regiment, c.1914 c.1914
unknown artist
Oil on canvas
H 86.5 x W 43.5 cm
National Army Museum
Naik Yeshwant Ghadge (1921–1944), VC, 3rd Battalion 5th Mahratta Light Infantry, c.1944 c.1945
Marie Temple
Oil on canvas
H 72.4 x W 55.8 cm
National Army Museum
Sepoy (later Subadar) Namdeo Jadhav (c.1922–1984), VC, 1st Battalion 5th Mahratta Light Infantry c.1945
Marie Temple
Oil on canvas
H 71.2 x W 55.9 cm
National Army Museum
Jemadar Abdul Hafiz (1925–1944), VC, 9th Jat Regiment, 1944 1965
Lesley Franklyn (b.1900)
Oil on canvas
H 51 x W 41 cm
National Army Museum
Sepoy Kamal Ram (1924–1982), VC, 8th Punjab Regiment 1944
Henry Marvell Carr (1894–1970)
Oil on canvas
H 90.1 x W 74.9 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Ira Frederick Aldridge as Aaron in 'Titus Andronicus' published c.1850
William Paine (active 1849–1858) (after)
Stipple & line engraving on paper
H 27.4 x W 18.2 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
Ira Frederick Aldridge as Mungo in 'The Padlock' published c.1850
T. Hollis (active mid-19th C)
Stipple & line engraving on paper
H 27.4 x W 17.6 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
Carmen 1962
Gerald Scott (1916–1977)
Calcium aluminate cement
H 50 x W 32 x D 28.5 cm
RWA (Royal West of England Academy)
Miklós Barabás (1810–1898)
Lithograph on paper
H 44.2 x W 29.3 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
The Triumph of Scipio Africanus 17th C
Giulio Romano (c.1499–1546) (after)
Oil on canvas
H 52 x W 61.5 cm
Walker Art Gallery
The Butcher's Boy c.1910
Neville Lewis (1895–1972)
Oil on panel
H 35.6 x W 26 cm
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds
James Martin (1924–2006)
Oil on wood
H 27 x W 20 cm
RWA (Royal West of England Academy)
Marriage and Birth Customs of the Matabele People 1976
Cleopas B. Ndaneta (active 1976)
Teak
H 153 x W 46 x D 45 cm
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
George IV (1762–1830), when Prince of Wales 1780
John Hoppner (1758–1810)
Oil on canvas
H 235 x W 147 cm
The Mansion House and Guildhall
Reginald Grenville Eves (1876–1941)
Oil on canvas
H 50 x W 39 cm
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, mima
Tunumiu Woman* 1937
Eigil Knuth (1903–1996)
Plaster
H 44 x W 22 x D 23 cm
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Bust of a Woman with Serpents 1973
Roger Hilton (1911–1975)
Charcoal & gouache on paper
H 56 x W 38.1 cm
Jerwood Collection
Graham Durward (b.1956)
Oil on canvas
H 183.5 x W 168 cm
British Council Collection
White Wedding (The Bride) c.1960
James Fitton (1899–1982)
Oil on canvas
H 41.1 x W 25.5 cm
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
The Girls 1962
Jacqueline Needham (b.1930)
Oil on board
H 60.5 x W 90.5 cm
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
The Fruit Seller 1900
Giuseppe Signorini (1857–1932)
Watercolour, bodycolour & gum arabic on paper
H 100 x W 70 cm
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
Three Views of the Head of a Native (probably a Sakalava), Madagascar 1815
James Ward (1769–1859)
Oil on canvas
H 60 x W 78 cm
British Museum
Portrait of a Man 20th C
unknown artist
Oil on canvas
H 70.5 x W 55.5 cm
Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collection (Dundee City Council)
(You are now entering) Mau Mau Country 1983
Keith Piper (b.1960)
Acrylic on hessian & canvas
H 246.5 x W 192 cm
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre
Self Portrait 2000
Barbara Walker (b.1964)
Oil on canvas
H 69 x W 69 cm
The Collection: Art & Archaeology in Lincolnshire (Usher Gallery)
The Adoration of the Magi 1984–1985
Andrew Walker (b.1959)
Oil on canvas
H 190.5 x W 157.5 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
Elizabeth Risby, with John c.1660
Anglo/Flemish School
Oil on canvas
H 81 x W 115 cm
West Suffolk Heritage Service
Juanita 1927
Laura Knight (1877–1970)
Etching on paper
H 57 x W 41.7 cm
Penlee House Gallery & Museum
Robin Philipson (1916–1992)
Oil, tissue & PVA on canvas
H 91.5 x W 121.8 cm
Argyll and Bute Council
Mzee Mayunga c.1975–1984
Simon George Mpata (1942–1984)
Oil on hardboard
H 60.9 x W 61.2 cm
Argyll and Bute Council
Louis Mhuguni (1938–1998)
Oil on hardboard
H 50.7 x W 58 cm
Argyll and Bute Council
Giant Head, Ben 2001
Nahem Shoa (b.1968)
Oil on canvas
H 165 x W 137 cm
Hartlepool Museums and Heritage Service
Desmond Haughton 2003
Nahem Shoa (b.1968)
Oil on canvas
H 37 x W 27.5 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Nahem Shoa (b.1968)
Oil on canvas
H 59 x W 49.5 cm
The Box (Plymouth Museums Galleries Archives)
Self Portrait 2007
Desmond Haughton (b.1968)
Oil on canvas
H 79 x W 46 cm
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Self Portrait in a Yellow Waistcoat 1993
Desmond Haughton (b.1968)
Oil on canvas
H 81.3 x W 45.7 cm
Royal Holloway, University of London
Flesh II 2005
Zanele Muholi (b.1972)
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
H 60 x W 44.6 cm
Tate
Domenico Giuliani and His Servant 1579
Bartolomeo Passarotti (1529–1592) (attributed to)
Oil on canvas
H 121 x W 92.2 cm
Manchester Art Gallery
ID Crisis 2003
Zanele Muholi (b.1972)
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
H 35.3 x W 48 cm
Tate
Aftermath 2004
Zanele Muholi (b.1972)
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
H 59.9 x W 39.2 cm
Tate
Ordeal 2003
Zanele Muholi (b.1972)
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
H 63.2 x W 69.5 cm
Tate
In-security 2003
Zanele Muholi (b.1972)
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
H 48.2 x W 33.2 cm
Tate
Thembeka I, New York, Upstate 2015
Zanele Muholi (b.1972)
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
H 49.6 x W 38.6 cm
Tate
Somnyama IV, Oslo 2015
Zanele Muholi (b.1972)
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
H 99.4 x W 83 cm
Tate
To Tell Them There It's Got To 2013
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b.1977)
Oil on canvas
H 60 x W 55 cm
The Box (Plymouth Museums Galleries Archives)
Condominium 2005
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b.1977)
Oil on linen
H 121 x W 150.2 cm
British Council Collection
Studies of a Young Man with Dark Hair c.1919
Margaret Barnard (1898–1992)
Pencil on paper
H 56 x W 38 cm
Rye Art Gallery
Eva Frankfurther (1930–1959)
Oil on canvas
H 79 x W 59 cm
Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
William Etty (1787–1849)
Oil on panel
H 91.5 x W 62 cm
National Trust, Anglesey Abbey
June 2005
Sue Rubira (b.1959)
Oil on canvas
H 51 x W 46 cm
New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
Melita 1931
Ronald Ossory Dunlop (1894–1973)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 40.6 cm
Leeds Museums and Galleries
Tikhvin Mother of God 18th C/19th C
unknown artist
Tempera on panel
H 30 x W 25 cm
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
Head of a Dancer c.1936
Neville Lewis (1895–1972)
Oil on canvas
H 46 x W 35.5 cm
Bradford Museums and Galleries
A New Light in the Hareem 1884
Frederick Goodall (1822–1904)
Oil on canvas
H 122.7 x W 215.3 cm
Walker Art Gallery
Andrew Walker (b.1959)
Oil on canvas
H 160 x W 191.8 cm
Museums & Galleries Edinburgh – City of Edinburgh Council
A Girl with Fruit 1882
John Gilbert (1817–1897)
Oil on canvas
H 125 x W 91 cm
City of London Corporation
unknown artist
Oil on board
H 29.9 x W 24.9 cm
Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery
Sibylla Aegyptia (The Egyptian Sibyl) c.1750
British School
Oil on canvas
H 94 x W 73 cm
National Trust, Uppark
A Female from Nigeria before 1931
unknown artist
Wood
H 72 x W 31 x D 20 cm
Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum
Neville Lewis (1895–1972)
Oil on board
H 40.7 x W 30.1 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
Caprice. Verso: Masked Woman with a White Mouse c.1894
Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898)
Oil on canvas
H 76.2 x W 63.5 cm
Tate
The Slave Market 1872
Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956)
Oil on canvas
H 103 x W 127 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956)
Oil on canvas
H 55.8 x W 48.2 cm
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
West Indian Market c.1935
Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 74.5 cm
William Morris Gallery
The Captive Slave (Slave in Chains) c.1825
John Simpson (1782–1847) (attributed to)
Oil on canvas
H 128.2 x W 102 cm
Wilberforce House Museum
The Kneeling Slave, 'Am I not a man and a brother?' c.1800
British (English) School
Oil on canvas
H 86.4 x W 72.9 cm
Wilberforce House Museum
William James Müller (1812–1845)
Oil on panel
H 27.3 x W 40.6 cm
Leicester Arts and Museums Service
Teapot, Ginger Jar and Slave Candlestick c.1695
Pieter Gerritsz. van Roestraten (1629/1630–1700) (follower of)
Oil on canvas
H 68.6 x W 54.5 cm
Paintings Collection
The Capture of Slaves by an African Slaver in Africa 19th C
unknown artist
Watercolour on paper
H 72 x W 108 cm
Wellcome Collection
Thomas Williams, a Black Sailor 1815
John Downman (1749–1824)
Chalk and graphite on paper
H 31.5 x W 28.5 cm
Tate
Learie Constantine (1901–1971) 1971
Karin Jonzen (1914–1998)
Bronze
H 43.8 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
The Battle of Isandlwana, 22 January 1879 c.1885
Charles Edwin Fripp (1854–1906)
Oil on canvas
H 142.2 x W 223.2 cm
National Army Museum