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Castle Howard, the portrait's home for 200 years.. Reynolds was not commissioned to paint Mai's portrait, and the work remained in his studio until his death in 1792. It was auctioned by Greenwood's in April 1796, and acquired by the art dealer Michael Bryan for 100 guineas.
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The seven-foot high (2.1-meter) painting is considered a masterpiece by the renowned portrait artist and is the first known grand depiction of a nonwhite subject in British art.
Exclusive: There are just two weeks to save the £50m 18th-century Joshua Reynolds painting – one of the earliest portraits of a person of colour – or it could be lost to a foreign buyer
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Omai of the Friendly Isles by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c.1774 William Parry's painting Sir Joseph Banks with Omai and Dr Daniel Solander, circa 1775–76. Mai (c. 1753–1779 [1]), also known as Omai in Europe, [a] was a young Ra'iatean man who became the first Pacific Islander to visit England, [2] and the second to visit Europe, after Ahutoru who was brought to Paris by Bougainville in 1768.
Omai is a 1785 pantomime written by John O'Keeffe with music by William Shield. It depicts the voyage of Omai, a Tahitian royal, to marry Londina the fictional daughter of Britannia . It was loosely inspired by the real visit of Omai to Europe in the 1770s and the final voyage of the explorer Captain James Cook leading up to his dramatic death ...