Isaac Mendes Belisario

Isaac Mendes Belisario
Born1795 (1795)
Kingston, Jamaica
Died1849 (aged 53–54)
London, England
EducationRobert Hills
Known forPainter, printmaker, lithographer

Isaac Mendes Belisario (1795–1849) was a Jamaican-born artist, lithographer, and painter of Sephardic Jewish descent. He is best known for his 1837–38 series Sketches of Character, In Illustration of the Habits, Occupation, and Costume of the Negro Population in the Island of Jamaica, which documented Afro-Caribbean life in early post-emancipation Jamaica.

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