Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray
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| Artist | David Martin |
| Year | 1778 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait painting |
| Location | Scone Palace, Scotland |
Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray is a 1778 portrait painting by the British artist David Martin. It features a double portrait of the cousins Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray.[1][2] Dido was the great niece of Lord Chief Justice Lord Mansfield who made notable rulings limiting the practice of slavery and the slave trade, notably Somersett's Case and the Zong trial. The 2013 film Belle drew inspiration from the painting.[3]
It was once attributed to the German-born artist Johan Zoffany. The painting is now in the collection of Scone Palace near Perth while a reproduction exists at Kenwood House in Highgate, where Dido and Elizabeth lived with Lord Mansfield.[4][5]
See also
[edit]- Portrait of Lord Mansfield, 1783 painting by John Singleton Copley
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Brathwaite, Peter. Rediscovering Black Portraiture. Getty Publications, 2023.
- Oldham, James. English Common Law in the Age of Mansfield. University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
- Peels, Rik. Ignorance: A Philosophical Study. Oxford University Press, 2023.
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