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Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Thomas Swan (1795-1857), Slavery abolitionist and Baptist minister

Portraits in Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue | Other NPG portraits

The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840

by Benjamin Robert Haydon
1841
NPG 599