Like George Morland's painting entitled The Slave Trade, the scene is set on the African ... Few patrons were willing to purchase a piece of art for their homes that depicted such cruelty.

You wouldn’t know it, but there’s a gallery at the Wagner Foundation, on the second floor of an unassuming office building in ...

Prime ministers are entitled to change the state-owned artworks which hang in No 10, and incoming leaders typically refresh ...

Explore research into how our history and collections are connected to the transatlantic slave trade. Many museums in the UK have legacies that are rooted in colonialism. In the nineteenth century, ...

The slave trade stimulated British manufacturing and ... Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art in Royal Exchange Square. In the 18th century, the building was the palatial home of the tobacco merchant ...