P_10433_2036 – Blackwood
Owner of a slaving voyage by the Tuscan Gally from London to Gambia and Barbados in 1725. The ship with the same captain made two further voyages, one from London in 1726 and one from Rotterdam in 1729, for which no ownership information is shown in the TASTDB but which were probably under the same ownership. Almost certainly John Blackwood, London merchant and briefly MP for Glasgow Burghs 1727-28 who became a major art dealer and collector, and whose entry in the History of Parliament notes his involvement in slave-trading with his partner John Cathcart.
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Last name: Blackwood
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Primary cohort: London
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Anne Mansel nee Shovell
Spouse (married 28/07/1726)
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Sources: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/blackwood-john-1698-1777 Sutton, D. "The Dundas Pictures" Apollo (September 1967); Langford, Mr (1760). A Catalogue of the Genuine, Entire and Valuable Collection of Paintings of John Blackwood, Esq., etc. London: Mr Abraham Langford. London Gazette 19 October 1745Issue:8477Page:12 ; a John Blackwood had been bankrupt in 1729 London Gazette 25 March 1729Issue:6764Page:3. SP 36/33/181 (1734). C 11/2255/8 (1733). PROB 11/1036/216.
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Crossings (1)
76553 - Tuscan Gally (1724 - 1725)
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Death
Date: 12/11/1777
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Town/City: Charlton (Kent)
Courts: PCC
The will made in 1754 opens with a long recitation of his marriage settlement with Anne Mansel[l] nee Shovell, and his entitlement to lands in Kent at Crayford, Bexley and elsewhere in what is now in south-east London, which he entailed to his son Shovell Blackwood, subject to a payment of £8000 to Shovell Blackwood's brother John. In a codicil of 1771 that shows him as late of Charlton but then of Soho Square he recorded the death of John Cathcart and replaced his other two original executors Henry Douglas and Sir George Colebrooke with his younger son John Blackwood. In further codicils of 1772 and 1777 he made his two sons executors and residuary legatees, and increased annuities left to his servants.
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Rembrandt's painting 'The Apostle Bartholomew' (previously known as 'Rembrandt's Cook'), now in the Getty. https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/59299
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