13 Edward Savage

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TitleThe Washington Family

Creator nameSavage, Edward

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1789–1796

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions213.6 × 284.2 cm

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.561.html

Accession number1940.1.2

SubjectsFamilies in artPresidents--United States--PortraitsPortraits, GroupPainting, American--European influencesBlack people in art

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2. Fleeting Portraits

Jennifer Van Horn

Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery

~He stands in the shadows on the right of Edward Savage’s monumental group portrait The Washington Family, one hand slipped into his waistcoat (fig. 33). Tucked between a column and an upholstered chair,...

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Jennifer Van Horn

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.72-121

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00354.3

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Chapter subject tags:Portrait painting, AmericanSlavery--United StatesWashington, George, 1732-1799Sheels, Christopher, 1776-Antislavery movements

1. The Atlantic Triangle

Hugh Honour

Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to...

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1: Slaves and Liberators

During the closing decades of the eighteenth century, years of revolutionary convulsions on both sides of the Atlantic, not only in politics but in all walks of life and thought and art as well, the ways in which blacks were regarded underwent profound and far-reaching changes ...

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Hugh Honour

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.11-96

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00143.005

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Chapter subject tags:Slave trade in artSlaveryAntislavery movementsFree African AmericansFree blacksSlave insurrectionsSlaves--Social conditionsAfrican AmericansHaiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804

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