The Pearl Deal | Bahrain 1911

I wanted to challenge myself to paint a full color painting of a black and white historical photo taken during Jacques Cartier’s visit to Bahrain, but without any color studies. In this scene we see Mugbil bin Abdulrahman Al-Thukair, a distinguished Najdi pearl merchant in Bahrain in the middle of a pearling deal and hosting Jacques Cartier, the grandson of Cartier founder Louis-François Cartier, in Manama, Bahrain (1911)