Portrait of a Man in a Red Suit

{{Short description|18th-century oil painting}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox artwork/wikidata|location=Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon|year=|image=Portrait of a Man in a Red Suit - Unknown- 14-1943.jpg|accession=[https://rammcollections.org.uk/collections/3a0f66f6-b858-35f3-9e52-f7122e08b132/?refid=26213 14/1943]}}

Portrait of a Man in a Red Suit (formerly known as Portrait of an African) is an 18th-century oil painting of a black man held by the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and donated by Percy Moore Turner in 1943. The artist and sitter are unknown.{{cite news|url=https://rammcollections.org.uk/2023/06/07/portrait-of-a-man-in-a-red-suit/|title=Portrait of a Man in a Red Suit|work=RAMM research blog|last=Parsons|first=Julien|date=June 2023}}

The earliest provenance is a sale by Christie's in 1931. From 2006 until June 2023, it was attributed to Allan Ramsay, created c. 1757–1760 and believed to be of a young Ignatius Sancho.{{cite web |title=Portrait of an African, probably Ignatius Sancho, once identified as Olaudah Equiano |url=https://rammcollections.org.uk/object/14-1943/ |website=Rammcollections.org.uk/ |publisher=Royal Albert Memorial Museum |accessdate=31 January 2020}}Madin, John, [https://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2007/02/26/abolition_trading_faces_feature.shtml "Trading faces"], BBC - Devon - Abolition, 26 February 2007.[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/portrait-of-an-african-95600 "Portrait of an African (probably Ignatius Sancho, 1729–1780)"], Art UK. Before that, it was proposed in the 1960s to have depicted Olaudah Equiano and to have been painted by Joshua Reynolds c. 1780 with the title Portrait of a Negro Man.{{cite web|url=http://arteverywhere.org.uk/artwork/portrait-of-an-african/|title=Portrait of an African|accessdate=14 August 2013|publisher=Art Everywhere}}{{cite web|url=http://www.apollo-magazine.com/august-2006/70946/o-saviour-save-me-your-servant.thtml|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130814183745/http://www.apollo-magazine.com/august-2006/70946/o-saviour-save-me-your-servant.thtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 August 2013|title=O Saviour, save me, your servant|author=John Madin|accessdate=14 August 2013|date=3 August 2006|work=Apollo Magazine}} The painting featured as part of the "Art Everywhere" initiative in the UK in August 2013.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23688138|title=Art is everywhere, but who is looking?|author=Ian Youngs|accessdate=14 August 2013|date=14 August 2013|publisher=BBC}}