Image of The Black at The Wallace Collection

Autumn 2026 Tours

Two hour unscripted tour of The Wallace Collection  to reveal the implicit and explicit Black presence in the collection

The Wallace Collection

<a href="https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&amp;module=collection&amp;objectId=65172&amp;viewType=detailView" title="https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&amp;module=collection&amp;objectId=65172&amp;viewType=detailView" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cover Image</a> Govaert Flinck (c1639) A Young Archer (detail)The Wallace Collection is one of the world’s great individual art collections. Hidden in its collection of over 5,500 works there are many Black presences, most times hidden.The Image of the Black in the Wallace Collection is a live, in person unscripted two-hour introduction to the open, and often hidden black presence to be found in the collection, from subjects of economic capital to creators of cultural capital.You’ll be taken around the Collection introduced you to many different works revealing Black subjects of economic capital, creators of cultural capital, kings &amp; kingdoms, musicians, princesses, slaves, servants, saints and inspirations. You'll be introduced to the religious, cultural and social significance of the Black presences in he Wallace Collection. If you want to understand this presence in one of the great collections of 18th and 19th century art in the home of the connoisseur who brought this sumptuous collection together, then this tour is for you.Your tour guide is<a href="https://about.me/michaelohajuru/" title="https://about.me/michaelohajuru/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Michael I. Ohajuru DUniv, FRSA</a><a href="https://veronese1515.blogspot.com/2024/03/honorary-doctorate-duniv-from-open.html" title="https://veronese1515.blogspot.com/2024/03/honorary-doctorate-duniv-from-open.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Honoray Doctorate from Open Univeristy (2024)</a>, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (2022), Senior Fellow of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (2017), Honours degrees in Physics (1974) and Art History (2008). Blogs, writes and speaks regularly on the Black presence in Renaissance Europe. Has spoken in the UK at the National Gallery, Tate Britain, British Library, National Archives and the Victoria Albert Museum and USA at the Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven and The Metroploitain Museum , New York. Founder of <a href="http://bit.ly/The_IBLG" title="http://bit.ly/The_IBLG" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Image of the Black in London Gallerie</a>s a series of gallery tours , the Project Director and Chief Evangelist of <a href="http://JohnBlanke.com" title="http://JohnBlanke.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The John Blanke Project</a>: an Art and Archive project celebrating John Blanke the Black trumpeter to courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII, co-convener of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies <a href="https://blackbritishhistory.co.uk" title="https://blackbritishhistory.co.uk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">What’s Happening in Black British History </a>series of workshops and founder member of the <a href="https://thepb2podcast.wixsite.com/website" title="https://thepb2podcast.wixsite.com/website" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Black Presence in British Portraiture</a> network<a href="https://twitter.com/michael1952" title="https://twitter.com/michael1952" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@Michael1952</a>

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