In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the ...

Book cover of Caroline Fowler, Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art (2025) (image courtesy Duke University Press) The thing is — you don’t really see slavery depicted in Dutch art.

Ahead of the annual remembrance day for the abolition of the slave trade, art conservationists are working to restore a rare painting of a kneeling African slave to go on display in the British port ...

A museum spokeswoman said the painting, set against the backdrop of a Caribbean sugar plantation, was based on a design commissioned by the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade on 5 July ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The so-called golden age of Dutch painting in the 1600s coincided with an economic boom that had a lot to do with the transatlantic slave trade . But how did the slave ...