{"id":10194,"date":"2016-02-04T10:43:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T10:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.britishportraits.org.uk\/?page_id=10194"},"modified":"2024-04-25T16:54:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T16:54:18","slug":"films","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.britishportraits.org.uk\/resources\/films\/","title":{"rendered":"Films"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are very pleased to share a new film produced by one of our 2023\/24 Fellows, Kate Haselden, which illustrates her research into\u00a0one of the only examples of a portrait depicting an individual Black person within National Museums Liverpool\u2019s collection:\u00a0William Lindsay Windus’\u00a0The Black Boy<\/em> (1844).<\/h4>\n

In her project, Kate examined this striking portrait of an unnamed Black child in Liverpool through three interconnected areas: the history of Liverpool\u2019s Black community, the experiences of Black children in Britain and the Black presence in nineteenth-century British portraiture. This project will eventually form the basis of the future interpretation of\u00a0The Black Boy\u00a0<\/em>in the re-developed\u00a0 International Slavery Museum<\/a>\u00a0following the\u00a0Waterfront Transformation Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n