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Portrait of Mai (Omai) (also known as Portrait of Omai, Omai of the Friendly Isles or simply Omai) is an oil-on-canvas portrait of Omai, a Polynesian visitor to England, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, completed about 1776.
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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.
The gallery has been in talks with the Getty Museum in California to strike an extraordinary deal
Getty museum director Timothy Potts said the painting — formerly known as ”Portrait of Omai,” the name by which the prince was known in Britain — “is not only one of the greatest ...
In 1776 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy, having exhibited five portraits in that year's Summer Exhibition. In around 1775–6, he painted the Portrait of Omai with Sir Joseph Banks and Dr Daniel Solander, one of his most celebrated works. In 1779 Parry's wife Elizabeth (née Keene) died in childbirth.
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