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Oxford University in ‘woke’ row as portrait of duke with black boy is taken down
He died in 1803. In the portrait he wears ermine robes, a powdered wig and stockings and breeches, while in the background a small black boy holds his coronet. The portrait has been moved out of ...
Rhodes scholar urged Oriel College to remove portrait of 18th century Duke Henry Somerset as he was 'personally troubled' by the 'racist and dehumanising' portrait
The portrait of the duke, who was a descendent of King Henry IV, showed him in the company of a black boy wearing a metal ...