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| Keywords: Carl Fredric von Breda - Double portrait - Google Art Project.jpg commons artist Creator Carl Fredric von Breda commons title LangSwitch The portrait represents the Swedish industrialist Carl Bernhard Wadström 1746-1799 and the African prince Peter Panah Wadström was an active opponent of the slave trade and redeemed Panah from a slave ship in 1789 The portrait was painted by Carl Fredrik von Breda the same year Carl Bernhard Wadström entertained philanthropic ideas and fought for equal rights for everybody He was probably heavily influenced by scientist Emanuel Swedenborg and had a vision of creating a Swedish ideal society in Africa During a trip to West Africa in 1787 he came into contact with the slave trade and took a strong position against it In his diary from the trip he wrote It is a misery that passes imagination; no day or night passes without hearing wailing cries of someone being dragged away On the way home from Africa Wadström stayed in London where there was an intense debate between people who saw the black man as a human being and those who had capital invested in companies involved in slave trading With first-hand knowledge of the slave trade Wadström worked intensively with public opinion against the slave trade and slavery He spoke at the British Privy Council and exhibited his own drawings of slave hunts and plan drawings of slave ships Wadström stayed in London between 1789 and 1794 and in 1789 published the essay Observations on the Slave Track followed five years later by An Essay on Colonization When a slave ship heading to North America stopped in London Wadström visited the ship along with some MPs to observe the conditions of the slaves on board In West Africa Wadström had met the King of Mezurado and he recognised the king's sign worn by one of the slaves The man proved to be Peter Panah the son of the king of Mezurado Wadström redeemed Panah who however subsequently caught smallpox and died in Wadström �s home In the portrait Wadström is shown teaching Panah pointing his finger at the book Sapientia Angelica De Divina Providentia On Angelic Wisdom and Divine Providence by Swedenborg Under the book is a map of Africa The men are in an environment probably Africa where a hut and a palm tree can be glimpsed in the background The painting has a hierarchical perspective; the white man is in a superior position looking down at Panah who in turn is looking up at Wadström The men however do not make eye contact and neither of them are looking at the book Wadström is pointing at In the painting the white man may be interpreted in two different ways as a colonialist oppressor transmitting his cultural heritage to Panah or as a liberal innovator fighting for the abolition of slavery and the equal value of all people The picture was painted by artist Carl Fredrik von Breda who was staying in London at the same time as Wadström and was a pupil of the great master of portrait painting court painter Joshua Reynolds The double portrait was exhibited in the Royal Academy's exhibition in London in 1789 entitled A Swedish Gentleman instructing a Negro Prince Von Breda later became a professor at the Swedish Academy of Fine Arts 1796-1810 and was the leading portrait painter of his time commons date commons medium commons dimensions commons institution Institution Nordiska museet commons location commons references commons object_history ProvenanceEvent 1890 acquisition the Nordic Museum Stockholm commons exhibition_history Exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition 1789 A Swedish Gentleman instructing a Negro Prince commons credit_line commons inscriptions commons notes commons accession_number http //www digitaltmuseum se/things/portrtt/S-NM/NM 0061465 NM 0061465 commons source commons permission commons other_versions commons zoom core title Double portrait core creator Carl Fredric von Breda core date dateCreated 1789 core location locationCreated London England core format cm 67 5 88 core type Painting core relation http //www digitaltmuseum se/things/portrtt/S-NM/NM 0061465 core rights Photo Karolina Kristensson © Nordiska museet art artist_date c-09caf48a customtext subjects_depicted Panah Peter and Wadström Carl Bernhard c-09caf48a customtext more_information The portrait represents the Swedish industrialist Carl Bernhard Wadström 1746-1799 and the African prince Peter Panah Wadström was an active opponent of the slave trade and redeemed Panah from a slave ship in 1789 The portrait was painted by Carl Fredrik von Breda the same year Carl Bernhard Wadström entertained philanthropic ideas and fought for equal rights for everybody He was probably heavily influenced by scientist Emanuel Swedenborg and had a vision of creating a Swedish ideal society in Africa During a trip to West Africa in 1787 he came into contact with the slave trade and took a strong position against it In his diary from the trip he wrote It is a misery that passes imagination; no day or night passes without hearing wailing cries of someone being dragged away On the way home from Africa Wadström stayed in London where there was an intense debate between people who saw the black man as a human being and those who had capital invested in companies involved in slave trading With first-hand knowledge of the slave trade Wadström worked intensively with public opinion against the slave trade and slavery He spoke at the British Privy Council and exhibited his own drawings of slave hunts and plan drawings of slave ships Wadström stayed in London between 1789 and 1794 and in 1789 published the essay Observations on the Slave Track followed five years later by An Essay on Colonization When a slave ship heading to North America stopped in London Wadström visited the ship along with some MPs to observe the conditions of the slaves on board In West Africa Wadström had met the King of Mezurado and he recognised the king's sign worn by one of the slaves The man proved to be Peter Panah the son of the king of Mezurado Wadström redeemed Panah who however subsequently caught smallpox and died in Wadström �s home In the portrait Wadström is shown teaching Panah pointing his finger at the book Sapientia Angelica De Divina Providentia On Angelic Wisdom and Divine Providence by Swedenborg Under the book is a map of Africa The men are in an environment probably Africa where a hut and a palm tree can be glimpsed in the background The painting has a hierarchical perspective; the white man is in a superior position looking down at Panah who in turn is looking up at Wadström The men however do not make eye contact and neither of them are looking at the book Wadström is pointing at In the painting the white man may be interpreted in two different ways as a colonialist oppressor transmitting his cultural heritage to Panah or as a liberal innovator fighting for the abolition of slavery and the equal value of all people The picture was painted by artist Carl Fredrik von Breda who was staying in London at the same time as Wadström and was a pupil of the great master of portrait painting court painter Joshua Reynolds The double portrait was exhibited in the Royal Academy's exhibition in London in 1789 entitled A Swedish Gentleman instructing a Negro Prince Von Breda later became a professor at the Swedish Academy of Fine Arts 1796-1810 and was the leading portrait painter of his time The painting was acquired by Nordiska museet in 1890 google display_date 1789 google is_artproject TRUE google is_gigapixel FALSE google is_secured TRUE google partner/id 0000000009caf48a google partner/name Nordiska Museet google picasa_token gBAKnGUhdPdBtbt5GLMsCQHWn7o special url_id mQEFY4piIny3qg special partner/name_no_lang Nordiska Museet PD-old-100-1923 1818 Carl Fredric von Breda Google Art Project works by Carl Fredric von Breda Maps of Africa in art Teaching in art Paintings of men with open books Pointing with the index finger in portrait paintings Pointing down in art Paintings in Nordiska museet Africans in 18th-century art Freedmen African royalty Carl Bernhard Wadström Portraits with 2 persons | ||||
