This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  As the junior draftsman aboard the "Uranie" on a French exploration voyage to Hawaii in 1819, Adrien Taunay worked with the official artist, Jacques Arago. They depicted the local people and landscape at a time when Hawaii was becoming a whaling center and part of the trade route with China.
One of his subjects was Keeaumoku, an attendant to Hawaii's high chief, who was on the deck of the "Uranie" dressed in full Hawaiian regalia and smoking a pipe, a newly adopted activity of Hawaiian upper classes. |
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Adrien Taunay is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Artists who painted Hawaii
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