The 18th-century portrait “A Young Coachman” at Erddig, a National Trust property in north Wales, for example, now includes information on who the Black man in the painting might be.

one Black man in a gallery of white men and women was not appropriate,” said Kathleen Gagne, executive director and co-chair of The Portraits Project at Mechanics Hall. “It was not going to do ...

In seventh grade, his portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. was pinned on a bulletin board outside the principal’s office. Today, his portrait of Mary Frances Early, UGA’s first Black graduate ...