In this Oct. 9, 2005, file picture, guests stroll within the gardens on the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. One of the earliest portraits of an individual of coloration by a British artist will stay on public show after London’s National Portrait Gallery and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles struck a 50 million-pound ($62 million) deal to purchase it.
The two establishments introduced Wednesday, April 26, 2023, that they had every pitched in 25 million kilos to amass Joshua Reynolds’ depiction of an 18th-century Polynesian man, “Portrait of Mai.” The seven-foot excessive (2.1-meter) portray is taken into account a masterpiece by the famend portrait artist and is the primary recognized grand depiction of a nonwhite topic in British artwork. AP-Yonhap.
