Eyre Crowe caused waves with his depiction of the Richmond slave trade in 1853:
British artist Eyre Crowe had visited Richmond eight years earlier, in 1853, and caused a ruckus when he pulled out his sketch pad at a slave auction. His highly trained hand produced a portrait of people, not caricatures, illuminating a story that Richmond's proposed slavery museum is trying to tell.source: RTD
The black man in his painting sits sullen and pained, a vein visible in his forehead, arms crossed and fists clenched. He's no Uncle Tom.
