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Samuel Shrimpton

Samuel Shrimpton Oil on canvas
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Oil on canvas by an unidentified artist of the British school, 1675

image 75 x 62 cm; in frame 86 x 73.7 x 3.2 cm

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This portrait depicts Samuel Shrimpton (1643-1698). The image of the African American figure in the background is the earliest known portrait of an enslaved person in New England.