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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.
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.
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And he won plenty of fans along the way, through key acquisitions such as Joshua Reynolds’s 1776 painting Portrait of Mai (Omai), one of British art’s most significant paintings of a person of ...
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.
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Portrait of Mai (Omai) by Sir Joshua Reynolds, oil on canvas, c.1776. Although unexhibited during Reynolds' lifetime, the picture was exhibited at the landmark Reynolds exhibition at the Royal Academy London in 1985 and in 1986 at the Grand Palais Paris. [2] The painting remained in the possession of descendants of the Gell family until 2007.
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