The Fruit Market at St. Vincent, 1770s.

Source: Engraved print of painting by Agostino Brunias, published by John P. Thompson (London), October 6, 1804. Print held by the Barbados Museum.
From Slavery Images:

Titled, The Fruit Market at St. Vincent, shows free colored woman and slaves, perhaps meant to depict the Sunday Market, a major institution in the British West Indies during the period of slavery. Agostino Brunias (sometimes incorrectly spelled Brunyas, Brunais), a painter born in Italy in 1730, came to England in 1758 where he became acquainted with William Young. Young had been appointed to a high governmental post in West Indian territories acquired by Britain from France, and in late 1764 Brunias accompanied Young to the Caribbean as his personal artist. Arriving in early 1765, Brunias stayed in the islands until around 1775, when he returned to England (exhibiting some of his paintings in the late 1770s) and visited the continent. He returned to the West Indies in 1784 and remained there until his death on the island of Dominica in 1796. Although Brunias primarily resided in Dominica he also spent time in St. Vincent, and visited other islands, including Barbados, Grenada, St. Kitts, and Tobago.

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