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Prince Demah Barnes
American, 1745–1778
Prince Demah Barnes was an American Romanticism painter. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Prince Demah (c. 1745, March 1778) was an American painter of African ancestry who was formerly enslaved and active in Boston in the late 1700s. According to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Demah is "the only known enslaved artist working in colonial America whose paintings have survived."
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