KTBS-TV: Rare Portraits by Pioneering Louisiana Artist Now on Display in New Orleans

“Julien Hudson is the first Louisiana-born portraitist and the second-known portraitist of color in American history. There are only six of his works known to exist in the world and the Historic New Orleans Collection has just acquired two of them. They are two really stunning examples of two portraits of people of color—painted by a person of color—in the pre-Civil War period. . . . It's just astonishing that we now have [these works] available to share with the public.”