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| Thus, from just a cursory look at the social awareness and political activism at that level of English society, it would be surprising if the Queen's negroid physiogomy was of no significance to the Abolitionist movement. Lord Mansfield's black grand niece, for example, Ms. Lindsay, was the subject of at least two formal full sized portraits. Obviously prompted by or meant to appeal to abolitionist sympathies, they depicted the celebrated friendship between herself and her white cousin, Elizabeth Murray, another member of the Mansfield family. One of the artists was none other than Zoffany, the court painter to the royal family, for whom the Queen had sat on a number of occasions.
Because
of its "scientific" source, the most valuable of Dr. Hedley's
references would, probably, be the one published in the autobiography
of the Queen's personal physician, Baron Stockmar, where he described
her as having "a true mulatto face."Perhaps
the most literary of these allusions to her African appearance,
More
about Research into the Black Magi: In the Flemish masterpieces depicting
the Adoration of the Magi, the imagery of the black de Sousas had been
utilized as both religious and political propaganda to support Portugal's
expansion into Africa. In addition, the Flemish artists had drawn from
a vocabulary of blackness |
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