Emissário do Congo

Don Miguel de Castro. Emissary of Kongo

Jaspar Beckx

ca. 1643

    "According to inscriptions on the back of the three paintings they depict the Emissary of Congo, Don Miguel de Castro and his servants, Pedro Sunda and Diego Bemba.

All three are dressed in accordance with Portuguese fashion, and the servants are showing gifts they have brought or received.

In 1643 or 1644 they arrived as part of a delegation sent by the ruler of Sonho, a province of Congo, via Brazil to The Netherlands." Daqui