Macon Bolling Allen went on to become the nation's first African American judge and was a partner at the first Black-led firm ...
“This is clearly the portrait of a banker, a lawyer—some professional man in his workspace,” he adds. Titian turned the man’s portrait upside down before painting over it, and Bakirtzis ...
The portrait arrived in Portland in 1873. Its subject, Macon Bolling Allen, was admitted to the Maine bar decades earlier as the nation’s first Black lawyer. His picture hung at City Hall for ...
Feb. 28—The portrait arrived in Portland in 1873. Its subject, Macon Bolling Allen, was admitted to the Maine bar decades earlier as the nation's first Black lawyer. His picture hung at City ...