The early figurative paintings of First Nation artist Daniel Boyd blatantly equated the British colonization of Australia with a piratical heist. “No Beard,” a series he produced between 2005 and 2007, pictured the empire’s notables as pirates in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1881–82). Captain No Beard, 2005, for example, is a large oil painting copied from a 1782 portrait of Captain James Cook, the subject equipped with a black eye patch and parrot on his shoulder. Around 2009, however, Boyd developed a less didactic painting technique that has since become his signature. After