"The portrait of Sancho is a rare depiction of an African in eighteenth-century Europe shown not as an enslaved person, servant or caricature, but as a gentleman...[H]e became famous for his correspondence with the author Laurence Sterne and for the grocers that he ran in Westminster. He was the first African to receive an obituary in the British press."
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https://enfilade18thc.com/2022/12/06/exhibition-ignatius-sancho-a-portrait/