The Revolutionary Life and Times of Black American Artist Prince Demah

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Chances are you’ve never heard of Prince Demah, an enslaved portrait painter in colonial America. One of his three surviving paintings is in the collection of the Met. He was first a mariner and later served in the Massachusetts Militia as a cannon loader for Henry Knox’s artillery. His owner, a Loyalist Boston merchant, took him to England to get some training. He knew poet Phillis Wheatly and is the likely painter of a lost portrait which survives as an engraving that is the sole likeness we have of her.

This fascinating early American artist is one of the main subjects of Zara Anishanslin’s book, The Painter’s Fire. Join the Trent House Association and the Trenton Historical Society to hear her tell this fascinating story at the Masonic Temple, Saturday, February 7^th at 3pm. Pre-registration and $15 fee required.https://tinyurl.com/PrinceDemah.