Portrait of Omai
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Portrait of Mai is an oil-on-canvas portrait of Omai, a Polynesian visitor to the Kingdom of Great Britain, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, completed about 1776.
Portrait of Mai (Omai) by Sir Joshua Reynolds, oil on canvas, c.1776
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Pencil sketch of Mai, Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia
Castle Howard, the portrait's home for 200 years.
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The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in London that houses a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. When it opened in 1856, it was arguably the first n
The main entrance in June 2023
The Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare, the first painting to enter the gallery's collection
The gallery's former main entrance in 2018
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