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Artist in the Global Art Registry
Agostino Brunias
1730–1796
- Born
- 1730 · Rome
- Died
- 1796 · Dominica
6 works in the Collect24 Registry
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Agostino Brunias was an Italian painter primarily active in the West Indies, where he was commissioned to paint planter families and scenes of cultural life. He spent most of his West Indian career on the island of Dominica.
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Agostino Brunias (c. 1730 – 2 April 1796) was an Italian painter who was primarily active in the West Indies. Born in Rome around 1730, Brunias spent his early career as a painter after graduating from the Accademia di San Luca. After he befriended prominent Scottish architect Robert Adam and accompanied him back to Britain, Brunias left for the British West Indies to continue his career in painting under the tutelage of Sir William Young. Although he was primarily commissioned to paint the various planter families and their plantations in the West Indies, he also painted several scenes featuring free people of colour and cultural life in the West Indies. Brunias spent most of his West Indian career on the island of Dominica, where he would die in 1796. Historians have made disparate assessments of Brunias's works; some praised his subversive depiction of West Indian culture, while others claimed it romanticised the harshness of plantation life. Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture was a prominent admirer of his work.
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Selected registered works by Agostino Brunias
Selected from 6 works by Agostino Brunias in the Collect24 Registry.
Agostino Brunias
Free West Indian Dominican, 1770
oil paint
31.8 × 24.8 cm
Yale Center for British Art
C24-464472
Agostino Brunias
Decorative painting for Kedleston Hall, 1761
Painting
Victoria and Albert Museum
C24-117545
Agostino Brunias
A Leeward Islands Carib family outside a Hut, 1780
oil paint
30.8 × 24.8 cm
Yale Center for British Art
C24-464414
Agostino Brunias
Servants Washing a Deer, 1775
oil paint
31.8 × 28.6 cm
Yale Center for British Art
C24-463882
Agostino Brunias
A Mother with her Son and a Pony, 1775
oil paint
33 × 27.9 cm
Yale Center for British Art
C24-464505
Agostino Brunias
Two Women of Color, Dominica [French Mulatress of Dominica and a Negro Woman in their Proper Dress], c. 1765-1790
Oil on canvas
29.5 × 23 cm
Harvard Art Museums
C24-132578
Agostino Brunias
Indigenous Kalinago of St. Vincent [Aboriginal Caraibs of St. Vincents], c. 1765-1790
Oil on canvas
29.5 × 22.8 cm
Harvard Art Museums
C24-132576
Agostino Brunias
Women of Color Bathing and a Voyeur [Mulatresses and Negro Woman Bathing], c. 1765-1790
Oil on canvas
29.5 × 23 cm
Harvard Art Museums
C24-132574
Agostino Brunias
Francophone Women of Color and a Young Attendant, Dominica [French Mulatresses of Dominica in their Proper Dress], c. 1765-1790
Oil on canvas
29.5 × 23.2 cm
Harvard Art Museums
C24-132577
Agostino Brunias
Purchasing Fruit [A French Mulatress Purchasing Fruit from a Negro Wench], c. 1765-1790
Oil on canvas
29.7 × 22.8 cm
Harvard Art Museums
C24-132579
Agostino Brunias
Garifuna Peoples of St. Vincent [Caraibs of St. Vincents], c. 1765-1790
Oil on canvas
29.7 × 23 cm
Harvard Art Museums
C24-132575
Agostino Brunias
View on the River Roseau, Dominica, 1770–80
Oil on canvas
84.1 × 158 cm
Art Institute of Chicago
C24-106702
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- Yale Center for British Art
United States
4 works
- Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
1 work
- Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
1 work
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