Behind her, drapery is pulled back to reveal a bucolic landscape, a common trope in portraits at the time ... Black subjects from the 17th to 19th centuries opens in November.

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 BBC's Diane Cole reports on an exhibition of 19th-century paintings believed to depict ... was to preserve in oil paint the view about to be destroyed by the forthcoming construction of ...