Sir Francis Ford's Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy

Sir Francis Ford's Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy is a 1793 portrait painting by the British artist William Beechey.

It shows two well-dressed children of Sir Francis Ford passing a coin to a beggar.

[1] Ford was a wealthy owner of plantations in the West Indies and it has been suggested that the image may have reinforced an argument that the poor of Britain were less cared for-than the slaves in the Caribbean.

[2] This came at a time when abolitionist sentiment was growing amongst the British public.

Beechey was a noted portraitist and member of the Royal Academy.