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Ignatius Sancho NPG D23441

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Francesco Bartolozzi, published by John Bowyer Nichols, after Thomas Gainsborough

Ignatius Sancho was born on a slave ship in the mid-Atlantic. He was given to three sisters in Greenwich but ran away and became butler to the Duke and Duchess of Montagu. Here he indulged his passion for reading and writing. He was welcomed by London's literary and artistic set, and was painted by Thomas Gainsborough. In 1773 he opened a grocery shop in Westminster with a legacy from the Duchess. He became the first African prose writer published in England. His... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.