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Edward Bannister, an artist from birth, arrived in Boston in 1850 from his native Canada. As many young men from St. Andrew's, he "went to sea", working his way up to the position of cook. Perhaps his cuisine was enhanced by his boundless creativity! This crew position was lucrative, and also brought him into contact with the port cities of the eastern United States. His familiarity with these cities aided his move to Boston in 1850, seeking a chance to become a fine artist.

The Fugitive Slave Act of that same year added to the perilous conditions for a person of color. Opportunities for education were few. Bannister could not even visit an art museum. In Boston, Bannister became involved with the Abolitionist Movement. Creating jobs allowed the Abolitionist community to grow despite the restrictive laws. Bannister worked in a variety of these businesses, including barbering in the hair salon of Madame Carteaux. By 1857, Christiana Carteaux and Edward Bannister were married; both of them charismatic, creative activists. He credited her as his greatest believer, sharing her con

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Edward Mitchell Bannister

Canadian–American painter (1828–1901)

Edward Mitchell Bannister (November 2, 1828 – January 9, 1901) was a Canadian–American oil painter of the American Barbizon school. Born in colonial New Brunswick, he spent his adult life in New England in the United States. There, along with his wife Christiana Carteaux, he was a prominent member of African-American cultural and political communities, such as the Boston abolition movement. Bannister received national recognition after he won a first prize in painting at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition.^[2] He was also a founding member of the Providence Art Club and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Bannister's style and predominantly pastoral subject matter reflected his admiration for the French artist Jean-François Millet and the French Barbizon school. A lifelong sailor, he also looked to the Rhode Island seaside for inspiration. Bannister continually experimented, and his artwork displays his Idealist philosophy and his control of color and atmosphere. He began his pr

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Restoring Edward Mitchell Bannister’s Rightful Place in Art History

In 1853, Bannister worked as a barber in a salon owned by Christiana Carteaux, a formerly enslaved woman who had become a hairdresser, businesswoman, and abolitionist. Bannister and Carteaux married in 1857. Her financial success as an entrepreneur with a chain of hair salons provided Bannister with time and space to work on his art full time and hone his craft. He would later credit her for providing the freedom to realize his full artistic potential.

Much of Bannister’s early career as an artist was supported by clients who frequented his wife’s salons, white and Black members of the Boston abolitionist community. Through their patronage, Bannister established himself as a major portrait painter in Boston, depicting on canvas many of the leading figures of the movement.

Except for some evening classes he took at the Lowell Institute in Boston, Bannister had no formal arts education, but he considered portrait painting as an opportunity to exercise his skills. In the 1860s, he went to New York to train as a ph