displays a dignity rarely allowed African subjects in 19th century art. The half-length portrait shows Jones in his ecclesiastical robes, with Bible in hand. Its style is simple; yet it is ...

The Anglo-African School, 19th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction. What is Anglo-African ...

A ceramic jug found in Germantown, PA turns out to be an example of a significant 19th century protective relic and piece of art — a face jug — created by African American slaves and freedmen ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, very few people in Africa were practising Christians, apart from Ethiopians, Coptic Egyptians and people living in the remnants of the Kongolese Empire ...

There is little insight into other possibilities of political creativity in African societies during the long 19th century – what happened to ideas of justice, value or wellbeing in this period ...

The African art on display here includes a variety of 19th- and 20th-century spiritual and ceremonial objects, created from metal, wood, ceramics and more. According to the museum, its mission is ...