In March 1865, Dante Gabriel Rossetti encountered a black child in London. One year later, a portrait of this child appeared as an attendant figure in his painting The Beloved (1865–66). The context of the artist’s engagements with black subjects and Victorian-era discourses of abolition, race, minstrelsy, sexuality, and labor illuminates his search for this child, as well as the treatment of his portrait. Rossetti strategically attempted a figuration of blackness independent of political implication and, by proxy, as a way to escape the charged moral discourses about slavery and race he felt surrounded him.

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“喷气式飞机将是无价之宝”：黑色，束缚和挚爱

1865年3月，但丁·加布里埃尔·罗塞蒂（Dante Gabriel Rossetti）在伦敦遇到了一个黑人孩子。一年后，这个孩子的肖像在他的画作《心爱的人》（1865–66年）中作为服务员出现。艺术家与黑人题材的交往以及维多利亚时代废奴，种族，五官，性和劳动的论述为他寻找这个孩子以及他的肖像画提供了启发。罗塞蒂在战略上试图独立于政治意味来塑造黑人，并通过代理代替他感到被包围的关于奴隶制和种族的道德道义。