Revolution 250 Podcast

Prince Demah, Benjamin Lincoln and the Hingham Historical Society

July 12, 2022 Paula Bagger Season 3 Episode 28
Revolution 250 Podcast
Prince Demah, Benjamin Lincoln and the Hingham Historical Society
Show Notes

Prince Demah was an African-American artist or "limner," who created three known portraits--one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the other two in the  HIngham Historical Society.  These portraits, of Henry Barnes and his wife Christian Barnes, were damaged by a mob who attacked their home in Marlborough, before driving the loyalist Barnes's into exile.  Mrs. Barnes thought that Prince Demah's portrait of her was a better likeness than the one done by John Singleton Copley.  .  We talk about Prince Demah, the Barneses, and about the Benjamin Lincoln House--eleven generations of Lincolns lived in the house from the 1680s to 2020 (General Lincoln was the fourth generation).  All this and more in Hingham!