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File:Carl Fredric von Breda - Double portrait - Google Art Project.jpg

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Carl Frederik von Breda: Double portrait of Carl Bernhard Wadström (1746-1799) and Prince Peter Panah   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Carl Frederik von Breda  (1759–1818)  wikidata:Q2938914
 
Carl Frederik von Breda
Alternative names
Carl Fredric von Breda; Carl Fredrik von Breda; Carl Fredrik van Breda; Carl Fredrik Von Breda
Description Swedish portrait painter
Date of birth/death 16 August 1759 Edit this at Wikidata 1 December 1818 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Stockholm Stockholm
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artist QS:P170,Q2938914
Title
Double portrait of Carl Bernhard Wadström (1746-1799) and Prince Peter Panah
label QS:Len,"Double portrait of Carl Bernhard Wadström (1746-1799) and Prince Peter Panah"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description

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.
Date 1789
date QS:P571,+1789-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 88 cm (34.6 in); width: 67.5 cm (26.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,88U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,67.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1142142
Accession number
Object history 1890: acquired by the Nordic Museum, Stockholm
Exhibition history Royal Academy summer exhibition, Somerset House, 1789 , as A Swedish Gentleman instructing a Negro Prince
Source/Photographer mQEFY4piIny3qg at Google Cultural Institute, zoom level maximum

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The author died in 1818, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
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