Thomas Clarkson
Carl Frederik von Breda · 1788
Why it's great
Thomas Clarkson, who gathered evidence against the slave trade and traveled across Britain to campaign for abolition, sits writing in this portrait painted in 1788.
🏛️ Part of history
Slavery & the Fight for Freedom (1780–1865) — Thomas Clarkson, who gathered evidence against the slave trade and traveled across Britain to campaign for abolition, sits writing in this portrait painted in 1788.
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Carl Frederik von Breda was a Swedish painter born in Stockholm in 1759. He spent nine years in England, where he painted portraits, including one of the antislavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson, and later became court painter in Sweden. He died in Stockholm in 1818.
