MM - The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution

MM - The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution

Sunday, October 19, 2025

2:00 p.m.– 3:00 p.m.

Mercer Museum

$15 General Admission / $10 BCHS Members

The war that we now call the American Revolution was not only fought in the colonies with muskets and bayonets. On both sides of the Atlantic, artists armed with paint, canvas, wax, activism, and espionage played an integral role in forging revolutionary ideals. Zara Anishanslin charts the intertwined lives of three such figures who dared to defy the British monarchy: Robert Edge Pine, Prince Demah, and Patience Wright. From London to Boston, from Jamaica to Paris, from Bath to Philadelphia, these largely forgotten Patriots--women, Black individuals, and people of mixed race--boldly risked their reputations and their lives to declare independence.