Around the same time, the museum embarked on exhaustive research on the portrait ... of an enslaved boy of African descent depicted in the work, who has poured madeira into glasses for the ...

A 19th-century family portrait that was altered to cover an enslaved ... After that, though, the enslaved boy-turned-man’s fate is a mystery.

Giovanni Francesco Caroto painted the Portrait of a Young Boy Holding a Child's Drawing. The boy's eager, slightly toothsome smile gives this picture a place in the history of portraiture.