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1. The Story of Edward Hill and the African Groom at Shirley Plantation

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Janine Yorimoto Boldt

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6.2, janine yorimoto boldt, john closterman, john riley, seventeenth-century art, shirley plantation, sir godfrey kneller, willem wissing, History of the arts, NX440-632
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I have looked at hundreds of colonial portraits, and the most intriguing figure that I have seen is unnamed, barely visible, only about five inches tall, and whose face is largely obscured. This figure is an African groom—who I can now argue is the first known representation of a person of African descent in a British North American painting.

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2020
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