National Galleries of Scotland Acquires Rare Painting of Black Woman – ARTnews.com
Edinburgh Milkmaid with Butter Churn (ca. 1785), by artist David Allan, is thought to be one of the first images of a Black subject ever created in Scotland. Now, it has a home: the National Galleries of Scotland, a consortium of five Scottish galleries in Edinburgh. Starting in 1785, Allan created a series of paintings and drawings where he chronicled the ordinary people of ...