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Choi Afock, Interpreter, Aurora Taube, married De Geer af Finspång (1753–1806), Countess, and Olof Lindahl (1748–1801), Supercargo, 1787
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    Choi Afock, Interpreter, Aurora Taube, married De Geer af Finspång (1753–1806), Countess, and Olof Lindahl (1748–1801), Supercargo, 1787

    TitleChoi Afock, Interpreter, Aurora Taube, married De Geer af Finspång (1753–1806), Countess, and Olof Lindahl (1748–1801), Supercargo, 1787
  • Technique/ MaterialOil on canvas
  • DimensionsDimensions: (h x b) 90 x 78 cm
  • DatingMade 1787
  • Artist/Maker Artist: Elias Martin, Swedish, born 1739, dead 1818-01-25
  • Depicted PersonChoi Afock
    Fredrika Aurora Taube, Swedish, born 1753, dead 1806
    Swedish, born 1747, dead 1801
  • CategoryPaintings, Paintings
  • Classificationpainting
  • Inventory No.NMGrh 4067
  • AcquisitionPurchase 1992
  • ExhibitedNationalmuseum, Room 1606 18th century
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    The protagonist in this group portrait is Choi Afock, the first Chinese to visit Sweden. The woman indiscreetly studying his pigtail is Aurora Taube. The furtive observer of the scene is Olof Lindahl, who commissioned the painting. He was a merchant with the Swedish East India Company who had arrived in Gothenburg with Afock in 1786. The Chinese was an interpreter at the company’s offices in Canton, and spoke a very peculiar Swedish.