George Fuller (1822-1884) of Deerfield, Massachusetts, was still a young unmarried artist when he made three trips to the American South between 1849 and 1858 to earn money painting portraits. Fuller also made numerous sketches of slaves and plantation slave life he observed on his travels. Most remained unfinished, but he painted and framed “Negro Nurse with a Child” in 1859. The painting is of an African American woman, most likely enslaved, combing the hair of the young White child in her charge who plays with a doll. Fuller considered slavery “a very bad cause” but kept his anti-slavery views to himself while in the South, noting that “People here are very sensitive on home questions.”