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Ayuba Suleiman Diallo

1 of 74 portraits by William Hoare

OM.762. Orientalist Museum, Doha.

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Ayuba Suleiman Diallo

by William Hoare
oil on canvas, 1733
30 in. x 25 in. (762 mm x 635 mm)
Lent by generous loan from, Lusail Museum, Qatar Museums, 2010
Primary Collection
NPG L245

On display in Room 12 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery

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  • William Hoare (1707-1792), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 74 portraits, Sitter in 6 portraits.

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Hoare's sensitive portrait is the earliest known British oil portrait of a freed slave and the first portrait to honour an African subject as an individual and an equal. The portrait provides a fascinating insight into the eighteenth-century English response to other peoples and religions.

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  • Edited by Rab MacGibbon and Tanya Bentley, Icons and Identities, 2021, p. 85
  • Rab MacGibbon, National Portrait Gallery: The Collection, p. 43
  • Schama, Simon, The Face of Britain: The Nation Through its Portraits, 2015-09-15, p. 452

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Current affairs

Prime Minister Robert Walpole narrowly escapes defeat in the House of Lords over the investigation into the South Sea affair. His Excise scheme, introduced the previous year, also provokes widespread resistance among merchants and is withdrawn.
Sugar and Molasses Act is passed by Parliament to tax British colonists in North America.



Art and science

John Kay, working in the Lancashire woollen industry, patents the flying shuttle to speed up weaving.
Poet Alexander Pope publishes his philosophical Essay on Man, which proposes a system of ethics in poetic form.
Clergyman Stephen Hales publishes the second volume of his Statical Essays, Haemastaticks, describing the measurement of the 'force of the blood', later known as blood pressure.

International

Philip V of Spain and Louis XV of France sign the Treaty of Escurial and form an alliance against Britain.
Voltaire publishes Letters on the English Nation comparing France unfavourably with England.
British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia.

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