The Pipe of Freedom
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The Pipe of Freedom
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The Pipe of Freedom is an 1869 oil painting by Thomas Stuart Smith, depicting a black man lighting a pipe. The Royal Academy of Arts declined to include it in their 1869 exhibition, but Smith exhibited it with other rejected works nearby. Smith died on 31 December 1869, and bequeathed the painting to the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum, the art gallery that he had founded in Stirling. The painting measures 106.8 cm × 78.7 cm. It is a three-quarter length portrait of a black man lighting a
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1869 Painting by Thomas Stuart Smith
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pipe_of_Freedom
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2024-04-07T23:50:38Z
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