Zephaniah Kingsley
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Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. was an English-born planter, merchant and slave trader who moved as a child with his family to the Province of South Carolina and enjoyed a successful mercantile career. He buil
Ad for Zepheniah Kingsley Sr.'s store, Charleston, S.C., 1772
Main house, Kingsley Plantation
Maam Anna's apartments, now restored by the National Park Service, were above the kitchens. The rear of the main house is in the background.
James McNeill Whistler
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a
Zephaniah Kingsley
…immediately contested on racial grounds by his white in-laws. Kingsley's niece, Anna McNeill (Whistler's Mother; she married George Whistler, and their son James Whistler became a noted artist) was among the family members who tried to have all of Kingsley's family of African descent excluded from his heirs. Kingsley's…
Arrangement in Gray: Portrait of the Painter (self portrait, c. 1872), Detroit Institute of Arts
Portrait of James McNeill Whistler by William Boxall, 1848
Portrait of Whistler with Hat (1858), a self-portrait at the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl (1862), The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.