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Sir William Young Conducting a Treaty with the Black Caribs on the Island of St Vincent, 1773
Auction: 07/03/2024
Lot: 23
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1730 Rome - 1796 Dominica. Known for: Genre painting.
Brunias painted numerous St Vincent subjects for his patron Sir William Young, first British Governor of Dominica, who had sugar estates on the island. Britain had been given St Vincent, along with... Read full biography
Brunias painted numerous St Vincent subjects for his patron Sir William Young, first British Governor of Dominica, who had sugar estates on the island. Britain had been given St Vincent, along with Dominica and Tobago by the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The British distinguished the so-called Island or... Read full biography
Brunias painted numerous St Vincent subjects for his patron Sir William Young, first British Governor of Dominica, who had sugar estates on the island. Britain had been given St Vincent, along with Dominica and Tobago by the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The British distinguished the so-called Island or 'Yellow' Caribs from the 'Black' Caribs (supposedly descended from African slaves who has intermarried with the Indian population), and Young would exploit the supposed racial division (with Brunias... Read full biography
Brunias painted numerous St Vincent subjects for his patron Sir William Young, first British Governor of Dominica, who had sugar estates on the island. Britain had been given St Vincent, along with Dominica and Tobago by the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The British distinguished the so-called Island or 'Yellow' Caribs from the 'Black' Caribs (supposedly descended from African slaves who has intermarried with the Indian population), and Young would exploit the supposed racial division (with Brunias carefully describing the different types in his paintings) in his governance of the island. ‘Indians' specifically associated with the West Indies were also imaged as types or specimens in travel literature and New World histories, and in fact... Read full biography
Brunias painted numerous St Vincent subjects for his patron Sir William Young, first British Governor of Dominica, who had sugar estates on the island. Britain had been given St Vincent, along with Dominica and Tobago by the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The British distinguished the so-called Island or 'Yellow' Caribs from the 'Black' Caribs (supposedly descended from African slaves who has intermarried with the Indian population), and Young would exploit the supposed racial division (with Brunias carefully describing the different types in his paintings) in his governance of the island. ‘Indians' specifically associated with the West Indies were also imaged as types or specimens in travel literature and New World histories, and in fact Brunias produced a number of paintings and prints of Caribs of St Vincent. Indians were objects of cu... Read full biography
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeFree women of Dominica bathing in a stream; Free women of Dominica; A young couple and child promenading, Dominica; Flower girls of Dominica; Free women of Dominica with child; and A native family of St. Vincent
Agostino Brunias Auction: 06/10/2022Lot: 64Subscribe or get free alerts
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Natives dancing in the Island of Dominica, Fort Young beyond; and Mulatto Women on the Banks of the River Roseau, Dominica (2)
Agostino Brunias Auction: 01/29/1998Lot: 29Subscribe or get free alerts
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