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Originally posted by rahotep101:
Knowing that you are an art lover, Here are some more beautiful paintings for you to enjoy, Mr Codfried. I hope they may also help reintroduce you to reality.


Paul Ourry with black servant by Reynolds.

John Delaval in Van Dyck costume with a black servant, by William Bell


Portrait of Lady Grace Carteret, Countess of Dysart, with a child, a black servant, a spaniel and a cockatoo, c. 1753,


Elizabeth Murray, Lady Tollemache, later Countess of Dysart and Duchess of Lauderdale, with a black servant, by Sir Peter Lely, c. 1651

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Originally posted by rahotep101:
Sometimes the black servents had individual portraits, such as this by Reynolds, thought to be Francis (Frank) Barber (about1745-1801), the servant of Dr Johnson:

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This is a version of an unfinished picture now in the Menil Foundation Collection, Houston. The existence of many versions of this work can be explained by the fact that Sir Joshua Reynolds encouraged his students to copy it. Other copies were made when it was exhibited at the British Institution in the early nineteenth century.

The sitter is thought to be Francis (Frank) Barber (about1745-1801), the servant of Dr Johnson. Another possibility is that it is Reynolds’s own black servant. The original version was probably painted in the 1770s, a period at which the slave trade was still in operation in America and Europe’s colonies.

(From the display caption February 2010)

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=12424&roomid=5474

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Francis 'Frank' Barber was born possibly in 1735 (or later, in the early 1740s) in St Mary, Jamaica; he was a slave belonging by 1750 to Richard Bathurst, of Orange River Estate.

In 1750 Bathurst took Frank with him to UK, to join his son, also Richard, a doctor in London and a close friend of Dr Samuel Johnson, the writer and great lexicographer.

Frank was sent to a school at Barton in Yorkshire for about a year, then went to live in Dr Johnson's household in 1752. When Bathurst senior died in 1754 in his will he gave Frank Barber his freedom and 12 pounds sterling.

part from two brief episodes when he went off on his own, Frank Barber lived with Dr Johnson until the great man's death in 1784. During that period he was 'servant, companion and surrogate son to Johnson' as one writer puts it.There was clearly a great relationship between the two men; Johnson pulled strings to get Frank out of the Navy after he ran away to sea, paid for his schooling at the Bishop Stortford Grammar School in the late 1760s and took Frank's growing family into his home. Frank cared for Dr Johnson in almost every way, as valet and secretary, and nursed him in his various illnesses, taking communion with him when he received it for the last time just before his death.

In 1773 Barber married a young English girl, Elizabeth Ball, in the local parish church of St Dunstan's in the West. The couple eventually had five children, apparently after some miscarriages, but of these only three survived infancy; mortality rates among children were very high in the 18th century, especially in the unhealthy cities.

When Johnson died in 1784 he left the bulk of his money and possessions to Frank Barber; this guaranteed him an income of £70 a year, but over the years the Barbers had to sell most of the items Johnson had left them in order to make ends meet. Johnson’s friends, especially Reynolds and Boswell helped the Barbers also. They moved to Lichfield in 1786, as Johnson had advised, and set up home there; later, in the mid-1790s, they moved to the nearby village of Burntwood, where they started a school. Francis Barber died in the Stafford Infirmary in 1801, and his wife Elizabeth, who moved back to London with their surviving daughter Ann, died in 1816.

Their surviving son, Samuel (1875-1828), on whose education they had spent time and money, became a minister in the Primitive Methodist movement and was well-known in the Stafford region, where direct descendents of Francis Barber still live.

There is a considerable amount of material on Francis Barber; I have depended substantially on 'Samuel Johnson's Jamaican Connections' by Prof. John Ingledew in Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 2, 1984.
I have just started to read A Troublesome Disorder by Dave Randle which is a fictional interview with Francis Barber
The 'Portrait of a Black Man' by Sir Joshua Reynolds used on this page has traditionally been identified as a portrait of Francis Barber.

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Francis Barber was a servant and companion to the writer Samuel Johnson.? Francis Barber was born in Jamaica around 1735. He came to Britain with a planter from the island. For one year he went to school in the small village of Barton nr Darlington in Yorkshire England.

Then, as he got older he entered the service of his owners son who sent him to work for the Writer Samuel Johnson who’s wife had just died.

Two years later the plantation owner died and in his will he left Francis 12 Pounds and his freedom.

However, as Francis was a young man and high spirited, he ran away to cheapside and worked as an apothecary’s assistant. He did however keep in touch with Samuel Johnson. However, in 1758 Francis went to sea serving 2 years on H.M.S. Stag.

Johnson did not approve of Francis being in the Navy and through one of his contacts wrote to the Admiralty asking that ‘Frank’ be discharged. It is clear that Johnson was very fond of Francis because he paid for his education which cost 300 pounds a large sum at the time.

When Barber left School he went to work for Johnson, not just as a valet but as a secretary and personal assistant. After Samuel Johnson died Francis Barber told an interviewer that Johnson had hated to be waited on and they were good companions who both lived and prayed together.

Johnson left Francis 70 pounds per year and a Gold watch. Later an associate of Johnson, Sir John Hawkins tried unsuccessfully to take the watch away.

Barber married an English woman called ‘Betsy’ and they settled in Lichfield, (Staffordshire). They had not been there long when ‘Boswell’ a friend of Johnson wrote to Francis informing him that Sir john Hawkins had completed a biography of Samuel Johnson in which he slandered both Johnson and Barber.

Boswell asked Francis to help him get Johnson’s personal documents back off Hawkins. Remembering the incident with the watch Francis was only to happy to help.

Francis moved to ‘Burntwood’ outside Lichfield where he taught at the local school.

He died in Stafford infirmary in 1801. But his descendants till live in the area today. They don’t bear much resemblance to Francis though as they are completely white. They featured in a Channel 4 documentary in which they expressed great pride in their black ancestor.

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But....but....CASSITIRIDES said there are NO descendants of slaves over there....NONE...

tsk tsk....shame on him for telling such a lie....

but wait- that's his Nature....
 

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Julius Soubise-Aristocrat


Julius Soubise was unusual for a Black man living at his time. He led an extremely privileged lifestyle.

He came to England from the West Indies, carried by Captain Stair Douglas of the Royal Navy. Catherine Hyde, the Duchess of Queensberry met Soubise and persuaded the Captain to part with him as she found the boy extremely Charming and likeable.

The young Soubise was liked by the Staff of The Queensberry Household too. They called him ‘The young Othello’.

Soubise was taught to Fence and ride by Domenico Angelo. He soon became extremely notorious amongst the upper classes. Flattered by the attention Soubise exaggerated his social standing and began to pass himself off as the son of an African King.

He became an assistant at the riding and Fencing School where he again was extremely popular. He played the violin, sang and read poetry.
He accompanied This Trainers son to Eton and Windsor where he led an amazing double life. One as an assistant and the other as a gay darling of Society.

However Soubise’s lavish lifestyle had not gone unnoticed and both he and the Duchess were subjected to satire in the press. He was accused of raping a servant girl, and that the duchess sent him to India for his own sake. She died two days after he left.

He established a riding School in Bengal, he trained private students and was paid by the government for breaking in horses.

He was killed in India breaking in a troublesome Horse. Ignatius Sancho was a good Friend to him.

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Julius Soubise (1754 – 25 August 1798) was a freed Afro-Caribbean slave who became a well-known fop in 1760s/1770s Britain. He was one of the most prominent black persons in Britain at the time. [1]

He was born on st. Kitts in the Caribbean, the son of a Jamaican slave[2]. He was bought by Royal Navy Captain stair Douglas[3] and taken to England at the age of ten.[4] In 1764, he was given to Catherine Douglas (née Hyde), Duchess of Queensbury who was a celebrated eccentric and beauty. The Duchess gave Soubise a privileged life, treating him as if he were her own son - apparently with her husband Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry's blessing.[5]

Trained by Domenico Angelo (whom Soubise also regularly accompanied as usher to Eton and Windsor[5]), Soubise became the riding and fencing master to the Duchess.[1]. He became popular amongst young noblemen and he rose as a figure in upper class social circles, becoming the member of many fashionable clubs[5]. He was known as an amateur violinist[2], singer and actor - he was taught oration by the famous actor David Garrick who befriended a number of black people.[5] The personal favour and patronage of the Duchess allowed him a lifestyle of womanizing and fashion. He would sometimes call himself "The Black Prince" and claim to be African royalty. [6]It was rumoured that Soubise and the Duchess' relationship developed into a sexual one.[7][8]

Soubise became socially prominent enough to be the likely or definite subject of several caricatures - William Austin's well-known satirical engraving, The Duchess of Queensbury and Soubise (published 1 May 1773, showing them engaged in a fencing match) [5][9]; and most notably, A Mungo Macaroni (published 10 September 1772), part of a famous 1771-73 satirical series of engravings depicting fashionable young men published by Matthew and mary Darly. [10][11] ("macaroni" was a contemporary name for a fashionable young man; "Mungo" was a name of an officious slave from the 1769 comic opera The padlock by Isaac Bickerstaffe; the Darly engraving was based on a caricature drawn by Henry Angelo). [12]

In the collected letters of the famous freed slave Ignatius sancho, Letter XIIII dated 11 October 1771 is addressed to Soubise, whom Sancho encourages to consider his lucky position as an unusually privileged black person and so live a more seemly life.[11]

However, on the 15th of July 1777, Soubise fled Britain for India [13] The Duchess died two days after his departure.In India, he founded a riding school in Calcutta, Bengal. Soubise died on August 25 1798 from injuries sustained from falling off a horse.[13][14]

References

Further reading
•Julius Soubise
•Edwards, P., and Walvin, J., Black Personalities in the Era of the Slave Trade, London, 1983
•Shyllon, F., Black People in Britain 1555-1833, London, New York and Ibadan, 1977

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Originally posted by Egmond Codfried:


I understand its really hard, that why I keep posting the whitened Obama to proof that what you see is not always what you get. A white portrait does not proof a thing, its just a white portrait.

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http://www.beforebc.de/all_europe/02-16-800-00-51.html

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Originally posted by Egmond Codfried:


Joachim Murat, King of Naples and the Two Sicilies. Marechall of France, brother-in-law of Napoleon.

The Prince on a white horse should read The Black Prince on a white horse.

Another image of Black Superiority

The white horse represents the white Europeans, the serfs.



A whitened Murat with a little, tiny Moor; which shows his true complexion and high birth.

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