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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.