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| R J Lewis The Death of Colston Bristol City Art Gallery |
is this painting, commemorating Colston's death, where the artist, inexplicably has placed an African maidservant kneeling to kiss the enslaver's hand.
The artist R J Lewis is utterly obscure. It appears that the painting was commissioned or purchased by Bristol city council in the 1840s, to hang in a civic space like the town hall. About a century later it was transferred to Bristol City Art Gallery, probably because Victorian painting was so outmoded by then.
Bristol people have been protesting and denouncing Colston and his slaving for decades now.
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