American, 18th century, male.
Painter, pastellist. Portraits.
G.W. Hobbs was also a pastor, being one of the founders of the black Methodist church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). He was active at the end of the 18th century in Baltimore as the official painter for this church. A picture attributed to him was the pastel portrait of Richard Allen (...
American, 18th – 19th century, male.
Active in Baltimore, 1793-1824.
Born 1762 or 1763, in Maryland; died c. 1830.
Painter. Portraits, compositions with figures.
There is not very much information on the life of Johnson. His mother was a slave and his father was probably the white painter George Johnson. He was liberated from slavery at age 19, thanks to a law in Maryland in ...
American, 18th century, male.
Painter, draughtsman. Mythological subjects, portraits, landscapes. Frontispieces.
Scipio Moorhead was a slave belonging to the Reverend John Moorhead of Boston, whose wife Sarah was a painter and drawing teacher and probably gave him his artistic training. He was active in Massachusetts in the 1770s. The Black poet Phyllis Wheatley, born in the Gambia and herself a slave of the plantation-owner John Wheatley in Boston, mentions him in a poem entitled 'To S.M., A Young African Painter, on Seeing his Works', in her collection ...
