Property from a Corporate Collection
Lamqua
Portrait of a young man, three-quarter-length, seated before a red curtain, a landscape beyond
Lot Closed
April 28, 03:17 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Corporate Collection
Attributed to Lamqua
b. 1801, fl. Guangzhou 1820-60
Portrait of a young man, three-quarter-length, seated before a red curtain, a landscape beyond
oil on canvas
unframed: 29.2 x 24.6 cm.; 11½ x 9¾ in.
framed: 35 x 30.1 cm.; 13¾ x 11⅞ in.
In the collection of the present owner for nearly six decades.
Lamqua was a Chinese painter from the Canton province in Qing Dynasty China, who specialised in Western-style portraits intended largely for Western clients. He is known for his medical portraiture and for his portraits of Western and Chinese merchants in Canton and Macau. Lamqua is said to have been a student of George Chinnery; regardless, he mastered the grand English style Chinnery brought to the China coast, in turn influencing a whole generation of China trade artists.