The First Interview Between the Spaniards and the Peruvians
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| Artist | Henry Perronet Briggs |
| Year | 1827 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, history painting |
| Dimensions | 195.6 cm × 144.8 cm (77.0 in × 57.0 in) |
| Location | Tate Britain, London |
The First Interview between the Spaniards and the Peruvians is an 1827 history painting by the British painter Henry Perronet Briggs. It depicts the meeting of the Spanish conquistadors and the Peruvian Incas in 1532. While the Incan Emperor Atahualpa greets the friar Vincente de Valverde and other Spaniards peacefully on the right Francisco Pizarro prepares to draw his pistol, triggering the Battle of Cajamarca and a massacre.[1]
Briggs drew inspiration from the 1777 History of America by William Robertson. Two near-identical versions of the work were created. One being displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1826 and the other at the British Institution in 1827.[2] Today the latter painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain, having been acquired by the nation in 1847 through a gift from the art collector Robert Vernon. [3]
See also
[edit]- Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru, an 1846 painting of the subject by John Everett Millais
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Earle, Rebecca. The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930
- Hamlyn, Robin. Robert Vernon's Gift: British Art for the Nation 1847. Tate Gallery Publications, 1993.
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