Cancelled: The Hidden Histories of Art: Sweet Success: The Plantation Origins of Wealth in 18th Century England and the Bendyshe Portraits

This talk will be rescheduled in fall 2016.

Phil Scher, David M. and Nancy L. Petrone Faculty Scholar in the Department of Anthropology and the director of the Folklore Program, delves into the social, cultural, and economic contexts of the early-18th century portraits of Sir Henry and Lady Catherine Bendyshe, the English owners of a sugar plantation in Barbados. The portraits are on view in the John and Ethel MacKinnon Gallery of European Art.