atthesignoftheyellowdog: 1. Sarah Forbes Bonetta by contemporary artist Hannah Uzor. Queen Victori

atthesignoftheyellowdog:

1. Sarah Forbes Bonetta by contemporary artist Hannah Uzor. Queen Victoria became a patron of freed slave Sarah Forbes Bonetta and raised her as a goddaughter. The painting is displayed by English Heritage at Osborne House in the Isle of Wight as part of

A new painting of Queen Victoria’s African goddaughter has gone on display as English Heritage said it would feature portraits of “overlooked” black figures connected with its sites.

Sarah Forbes Bonetta was sold into slavery aged five and presented as a “diplomatic gift” to Captain Frederick Forbes in 1850 and brought to England.

She then met Queen Victoria through the captain, who paid for her education.

The painting is on show at the Isle of Wight’s Osborne House to coincide withBlack History Month.

2. Portrait of Sara Forbes Bonetta, 1862  by photographer Camille Silvy, on which Hannah Uzor’s painting is based.

3. Lithograph of Forbes Bonetta, after a drawing by Frederick E. Forbes, from his 1851 book Dahomey and the Dahomans; being the journals of two missions to the king of Dahomey, and residence at his capital, in the year 1849 and 1850.

Sources: English Heritage via BBC, and wikipedia.

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