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Abigail Chesebrough (Mrs. Alexander Grant) 1754

by Joseph Blackburn

Dressed in imported luxurious fabrics and accessories, 20-year-old Abigail Chesebrough displays the material wealth of her family in Newport, Rhode Island, in this portrait by Joseph Blackburn. Her father, David Chesebrough, was a merchant and an enslaver, amassing his fortune through the triangular trade of people of color, molasses, and rum between Western Africa, the Ca...

Size:: 127.6 × 101.5 cm (50 × 40 in.)
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Credit:: Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
More:: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/102777/abigail-chesebrough-mrs-alexander-grant

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