Garden Museum launches fundraising plea to buy portrait of one of the earliest recorded black gardeners in Britain
Lambeth’s Garden Museum is hoping to raise £420,000 to purchase a portrait of the gardener and plantsman John Ystumllyn (1736-86/88), one of the earliest recorded black gardeners in Britain.
John Ystumllyn was abducted by slave traders in West Africa aged only eight years old. He was brough…