Portrait of a Sailor (Paul Cuffe?)

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Portrait of a Sailor (Paul Cuffe?)

United States, circa 1800
Paintings
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 25 1/4 × 20 1/2 in. (64.14 × 52.07 cm) Frame: 30 × 25 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (76.2 × 64.77 × 8.89 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by Cecile Bartman (M.2005.2)
American Art
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

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  • Bolster, W. Jeffrey. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
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