Portrait of Omai information

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...

(1977). Omai: Pacific Envoy. Auckland University Press. ISBN 0196479525. Omai, Captain Cook Birthplace Museum website The Portrait of Mai Portrait of Mai...

regarded as the highest in the hierarchy of genres, the Grand Manner came thereafter also to be applied to portrait painting, with sitters depicted life size...

at the time. In turn, Cook brought back with him a tattooed Raiatean man, Omai, whom he presented to King George and the English Court. On subsequent voyages...

and Mrs. G. observed to Mrs. Gwatkin: "This figure of Hope, Madam, is a portrait of a niece of Sir J. Reynolds." - Richard Polwhele, 1826. Sir Joshua's...

one-off sale of a special painting or drawing (not listed here), such as the private sale of Castle Howard's Sir Joshua Reynolds "Portrait of Omai" to the...

Reynolds painted two portraits of his sister Mary, one made about 1747, the other when she was aged about 60 years of age. Both portraits descended to her...

of Artists of Great Britain was founded in London in May 1761 by an association of artists in order to provide a venue for the public exhibition of recent...

Gainsborough saw Reynolds's portrait of Philip Gell painted in 1760-61. Gainsborough includes the same elements as the Gell portrait rearranging them to show...

her. She later lived as a lodger of Dr. John Hoole, whose portrait, prefixed to the first edition of his translation of Ariosto, was painted by her. On...

Duchess of Cumberland 1766 The Cottage Girl 1785 Joshua Reynolds (1723–92) Parody of Raphael's 'School of Athens' 1751 The Temple Family 1780–82 Omai 1776...

attempt to find the supposed continent. On this leg of the voyage, he brought a young Tahitian named Omai, who proved to be somewhat less knowledgeable about...

Library of Australia News 15.7 (April 2005). Sir Joseph Banks Society. "Archive of Joseph Banks related material" British Museum: Bronze portrait bust of Sir...

National Portrait Gallery of London) of "Portrait of Mai (Omai)" by Sir Joshua Reynolds, which took place in Fleming's first year at the helm of the Getty...

(1776) Omai (1776) Sarah Campbell (1777) Countess of Eglinton (1777) Lady Caroline Howard (1778) Jane, Countess of Harrington (1778) The Family of the Duke...

IndieWire, 13 May 2015. Omaïs, Mehdi (21 May 2016). "Cannes 2016: the Queer Palm awarded to the documentary "The Lives of Thérèse" by Sébastien Lifshitz"...

Pacific, reaching Tahiti on 15 August, where Omai of Ra'iatea embarked on Adventure. (Omai later became one of the first Pacific Islanders to visit Europe...

more knowledge about Europe. He arrived about a decade after the Tahitian Omai, on 14 July 1784, in Portsmouth, aboard the Morse, and was quickly dubbed...

Inhabitants of Tongatapu, the main island of Tonga and the most important of the Society Islands. Cook anchored in June 1777 accompanied by Omai and Chief...