Image Title:
Don Miguel de Castro, envoyée from the Kingdom of Kongo

Note:
"The painting is a portrait of Don Miguel de Castro, a cousin of the Count of Sonho, who was sent as an envoy to the Dutch Republic to ask the Dutch stadtholder for mediation in a conflict the count had with King Garcia II of Kongo." [Wikipedia] Learn More

Artist:
Albert Eckhout

Image Source:
SMK Stratens Museum for Kunst National Gallery of Denmark

Subject:
People - Europe - Afro-Europeans -  Black European - Afro European - Moor - African - Europe - Envoyée - Kongo - Kingdom - Portuguese fashion - The Netherlands

Date:
1643-50

Rights:
Public Domain

Image:
SA-PPLEU-18

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