Join Dr. Zara Anishanslin, Associate Professor of History and Art History at the University of Delaware, for an afternoon of discovery as she shares stories of the American Revolution highlighting artists armed with paint, canvas, wax, activism, and espionage on both sides of the Atlantic.

Sunday, October 19, 2025, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle
84 S. Pine Street, Doylestown, PA 18901
$15 General Admission / $10 BCHS Members
In-person
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The war that we now call the American Revolution was not only fought in the colonies with muskets and bayonets. On both sides of the Atlantic, artists armed with paint, canvas, wax, activism, and espionage played an integral role in forging revolutionary ideals. Zara Anishanslin charts the intertwined lives of three such figures who dared to defy the British monarchy: Robert Edge Pine, Prince Demah, and Patience Wright. From London to Boston, from Jamaica to Paris, from Bath to Philadelphia, these largely forgotten Patriots–women, Black individuals, and people of mixed race–boldly risked their reputations and their lives to declare independence.