Toussaint L'Ouverture

This 1986 silkscreen portrait of Toussaint L'Ourverture (May 20, 1743 – April 7, 1803) by Jacob Lawrence is one of a set of six prints hanging in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.

"These prints derive from a series of paintings Jacob Lawrence completed in 1938, inspired by the story of the hero who liberated his people from the yoke of French exploitation and control in the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804. In both the series of paintings and the prints presented here, Lawrence focused on the theme of self-liberation. However, in the case of the silk screens created decades later, the concept of agency, so dramatically demonstrated in the Toussaint story, may have held greater significance in the wake of the changes in the United States brought about by the Civil Rights Movement." -- National Museum of American History

 

Update: 2024:

Wikipedia has this 1804/5 portrait of  Toussaint Louverture by  Alexandre-François-Louis, comte de Girardi. 

The painting was discussed in the Boston Haitian Reporter in 2011 wherein it is called by researcher, Mario Valdes, “the most authoritative image of the celebrated general we now know.”

Appleton's Encyclopedia 1889, has this representation of Dominique François Toussaint, and provides a glimpse at his complicated military and political history.