Robert Douglass Jr. (1809 – October 26, 1887) was an African-American artist and leading activist from Philadelphia.
His sister was artist and abolitionist Sarah Mapps Douglass; he also had four other siblings.
He trained at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, which rarely admitted black students, and also trained at the Royal Academy of Arts while he was visiting London.
A student of Thomas Sully,[3] he went on to mentor his own cousin and fellow artist, David Bustill Bowser.
His commercial business consisted of sign painting and interior decoration.