- Previously called Portrait of Omai, it will now be known as Portrait of Mai (Omai), reflecting the subject’s real name.
- A portrait of Omai by Joshua Reynolds. Photo: Alamy. In 1774, Omai (real name Mai), a Polynesian in her early twenties, arrived in London.
- Summary. Joshua Reynolds: Portrait of Omai wikidata:Q17019818 reasonator:Q17019818. Artist.
- The National Portrait Gallery in London has raised about half the sum required to buy Sir Joshua Reynolds’s “Portrait of Omai.”
- © Matthew Fearn - PA Images The Portrait of Omai is currently in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
- View portrait of omai By Sir Joshua Reynolds; oil on canvas; 90 by 57in.; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.
- Omai (ca. 1774). Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723 - 1792). ... Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA FRS FRSA was an English painter, specialising in portraits.
- London's National Portrait Gallery is teaming up with the Getty Museum in Los Angeles to purchase the Portrait of Omai by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
- Joshua Reynolds’s Portrait of Omai has been preserved from private sale by the National Portrait Gallery, which raised £25 million to keep the painting in...