#WhiteHistoryMonth : #Canada’s #ART #HISTORY
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In 1786, #François_Malépart_de_Beaucourt, a painter in New France (later Quebec), completed a portrait of a woman he owned. Though Canada’s slave-owning history is often whitewashed, it exists in documents such as the painting Portrait of a Negro Slave. That portrait and what it says about Canada’s history and Canadian art historiography, is […]