CHINESE SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY
CHINESE SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY

PORTRAIT OF A HONG MERCHANT

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CHINESE SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY
PORTRAIT OF A HONG MERCHANT
Ink and body color on paper
15 1/8 x 11 5/8 in. (38 1/2 x 29 1/2 cm.)

拍品專文

This finely rendered portrayal with the full-length subject shown under red drapery and before a window is reminiscent of close followers of Spoilum, the famous China Trade portraitist. Compare with a Spoilum portrait of Captain Thomas Fry in a private collection, illustrated by P. Connor in The Enigma of Spoilum and the Origins of China Trade Portraiture, the magazine Antiques, March 1998.