Prof. Swapna Banerjee, a partner investigator in the Australian Research Council-supported collaborative research project, Ayahs and Amahs: Transcolonial Servants in Australia and Britain 1780-1945, announces”

We are proud to host a workshop on an exciting recent acquisition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York – British artist William Wood’s 1792 portrait of Joanna de Silva, an Indo-Portuguese nurse from Bengal who journeyed to London in 1791.

Please join us on Sept. 12, from 5:30-7:30 pm to hear Met curator Dr. Adam Eaker, who was instrumental in acquiring the painting, present his findings on Joanna de Silva, the sitter of the portrait, grounded in both art historical analysis and recent archival discoveries about the sitter’s life.

The panel will also bring together the Ayahs and Amahs project team. In responding to Dr. Eaker’s talk, they will reflect on the diverse range of visual sources that shed light on the extraordinarily mobile women who accompanied employer families along circuits of empire between Australia, Asia, and Europe over two centuries.

For the full program see the flier below”

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