Join us at Stenton for a presentation that will focus on two double portraits; David Martin’s, 'Lady Elizabeth Murray and Dido Belle', (1779) and a recently discovered seventeenth-century double portrait entitled, ‘Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies’ (1650/60?) to consider what the paintings reveal about conceptions of race, gender, social class, and space- pictorial, geographical, historical space and time, and between viewer, sitters and artists. The talk will pose wider questions about the value of exploring stories of peoples and objects that are often overlooked and left hiding in plain sight. By asking questions of these two portraits we can start to undertake the important work of uncovering the intimate relationship between peoples, objects and the trans-Atlantic world; we can help paintings to talk, and we can make the time to listen to what they tell us.