File:Emma Soyer (Emma Jones) Two Black Children.jpg

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Emma Soyer: Two Children with a Book  wikidata:Q66817151 reasonator:Q66817151
Artist
Emma Soyer  (1813–1842)  wikidata:Q5362724
 
Emma Soyer
Description British painter
Date of birth/death 1813 Edit this at Wikidata 30 August 1842 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
Work period 1833 Edit this at Wikidata–1842 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q5362724
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Title
Two Children with a Book
label QS:Len,"Two Children with a Book"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Two young Black girls sit together with a Bible in their hands. The surrounding palm trees suggest they are in the Caribbean. This is a rare example of a 19th-century European portrait of Black sitters. The date of the painting coincided with the increased campaigning of Black Caribbean clergymen for an end to slavery in the British Empire. The girls’ smart dress and Bible reflect their self-sufficiency and the literacy in Caribbean religious communities. These factors were used to encourage the emancipation of enslaved people in the Caribbean. Painting by the British artist Emma Soyer (née Emma Jones) painted for the abolitionist cause in nineteenth-century Britain.
Date 1831
date QS:P571,+1831-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 917 mm (36.1 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 716 mm (28.1 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+917U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,+716U174789
Accession number
L04612 (Tate) Edit this at Wikidata
Object history
  • The artist's sale; (†), London, Christie's, 5 March 1859, lot 96 (Two Negro Children With a Book)
  • private collection, France
  • inherited by Charles Macquaker (United Kingdom) from his uncle
  • featured in Fake or Fortune ("A Double Whodunnit"), 2018
  • lent by Charles Macquaker to the Tate (On long term loan), 2022
Inscriptions
  • Signature and date:
E Jones fecit 1831 Edit this at Wikidata
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