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A Linen Market with A Linen-Stall and Vegetable Seller in the West Indies

Artist: Agostino Brunias (Italian, 1728 - 1796)

Date: circa 1780

Medium: Oil on canvas

St Vincent and Grenadines: this nation state consists of the main island of St Vincent with its capital, Kingstown, located towards the south, along with a chain of smaller islands which together comprise the northern Grenadines (the southern Grenadines belong to Grenada).

The Leinster was operating as a passenger ship and mail boat, although most of those who died were soldiers returning from leave, many of them Irishmen who fought in the British Army in World War I. First World War 1914-1918. On one side were Germany, Austro-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria. On the other side were the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Britain’s colonies, France, Italy and,…