The depiction of an enslaved Black child known as “Jersey” by celebrated 18th-century portrait painter Joshua Reynolds has ...

Researchers analyzing a Joshua Reynolds painting has identified an unknown Black sitter, only known as Boston Jersey.

An oil painting by Joshua Reynolds features a named naval officer and a Black child whose life story was unknown until ...

Exclusive: Until now nothing was known about ‘Jersey’, depicted with naval officer, but research raises hopes he may have won freedom ...