Head of a Zulu
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Head of a Zulu
Head of a Zulu
Reference
/ 1575 (Collage 11645)
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Collection
Guildhall Art Gallery: Permanent Collection
Description
"Head of a Zulu" by Constance Wood. Wood was a little-known amateur artist who won the Queen’s Scholarship award in 1881 for this detailed, evocative watercolour, when she was aged 20. The sitter is unidentified, but he was probably a model for various painters at a time when Black people were becoming increasingly represented in British art. It is possible that he was at Queen Victoria’s court as a result of the visit of the Zulu leader King Cetshwayo in 1882. Cetshwayo was the leader of the Zulu people and Kingdom during the Anglo-Zulu War (1879).
"Head of a Zulu" by Constance Wood. Wood was a little-known amateur artist who won the Queen’s Scholarship award in 1881 for this detailed, evocative watercolour, when she was aged 20. The sitter is unidentified, but he was probably a model for various painters at a time when Black people were becoming increasingly represented in British art. It is possible that he was at Queen Victoria’s court as a result of the visit of the Zulu leader King Cetshwayo in 1882. Cetshwayo was the leader of the Zulu people and Kingdom during the Anglo-Zulu War (1879).
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