Anne of Denmark (1574–1619) was the wife of James VI and I, King of Scotland, and King of England after the Union of Crowns. In 1617, she was depicted in a painting by Paul van Somer with an African servant holding her horse at Oatlands Palace.[2] There are archival records of Africans or people of African descent, often called "Moors" or "Moirs", in her service.[3][4] One of the first publications to mention Anne of Denmark's "Moir" servant in Scotland was edited by James Thomson Gibson-Craig in 1828.[5]
- ^ Bindman, David (2010). "The Black Presence in British Art: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries". The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, Part 1: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674052611.
- ^ Karen Hearn, Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530–1630 (London: Tate Gallery, 1995), pp. 206–7: Sarah Ayres, 'Introduction', 'Court Historian', 24:2 (London, 2020), p. 105.
- ^ See, 'Mor(e), Moir', Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
- ^ Nandini Das, João Vicente Melo, Haig Z. Smith, Lauren Working, Blackamoor/Moor, Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England (Amsterdam, 2021), pp. 40-50
- ^ Papers Relative to the Marriage of James VI, Edinburgh, 1828