Ruth Leon recommends… Linked Lives – National Gallery

Linked Lives – National Gallery

Here’s the fascinating story of two paintings in London, each with an ancestral link to a poet in New Orleans and to the inescapable horrors of slavery.

This is the history of the people behind two paintings in neighbouring galleries, the National Gallery and its sister, the National Portrait Gallery, as a young American,  Madeleine le Cesne,

traces the hidden history of her family.

In this film, Madeleine speaks with curator Francesca Whitlum-Cooper about François-Hubert Drouais’ ‘The Comte de Vaudreuil’ from the National Gallery’s collection and ‘The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840′ by Benjamin Robert Haydon  from the National Portrait Gallery.

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