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A view from the other side
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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5:40am July 02 2026
As we head into the weekend celebrating the 250th anniversary of American independence, the Center for British Art has an exhibition of works from its own collection that explore "the complex loyalties and interconnections" in the British Empire during the war. This portrait of British official John Eardley Wilmot, painted by the American expat Benjamin West in 1812, celebrates Wilmot's role in resettling loyalists displaced by the war. A painting within the painting depicts Anglican clerics and Black and Indigenous Americans being welcomed by a personification of Britain. The exhibition, Loyalists and Sons of Liberty, runs through December 31.  |
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