A special installation called Four Indian Kings will make its debut at the National Portrait Gallery on September 12, 2008 and will through January 25, 2009.
The Four Indian Kings exhibit commemorates the 225th anniversary of the Treaty of Paris which ended the American Revolution. The four portraits--depicted by John Verelst-- are the earliest surviving full-length oil portraits of North American aboriginal people painted from life. The four kings were chosen to represent the Iroquoian Confederacy of the Mohawk River Valley during a royal meeting with Queen Anne.
The paintings are on loan to the National Portrait Gallery by the Portrait Gallery of Canada, a program of Library & Archives of Canada.
General Information
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