LONDON -- A new portrait of Queen Victoria’s African goddaughter, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, has been unveiled at the 19th century monarch’s home on the Isle of Wight, as part of the conservation ...

According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria was “tickled” by the idea of being painted by an American. Today a later study based on the full-length portrait is on display at the ...

A painting of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, an African slave who became Queen Victoria’s goddaughter, has been unveiled at Osborne, the British former monarch’s seaside home.

Victoria, who died at age 81 in 1901, “lived so long she walks out of history a dumpy dowager dressed in black,” wrote McKean. “Sully’s Victoria is a little beauty, fond of people and ...

The portrait, known as ‘the secret picture’, was commissioned by the young Queen in 1843 as a 24th birthday present for her beloved husband Albert.

But when Queen Victoria visited the exhibiton she and Prince Albert loved it so much she bought a print of it and gave it to Royal Collection The Turkish Bath, 1986, Calum Colvin.

A portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, the daughter of an African ruler and goddaughter of Queen Victoria, was unveiled Wednesday as part of an effort to shed light on forgotten Black stories in ...

A painting of an African ex-slave who became Queen Victoria's goddaughter has been unveiled at Osborne, the seaside home of the former British monarch.