STUDIO OF LAMQUA, MID-19TH CENTURY

CHINESE BEAUTIES, A SET OF FOUR

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STUDIO OF LAMQUA, MID-19TH CENTURY
Chinese Beauties, A Set of Four
Oil on canvas
The maidens dressed in silk robes over trousers and wearing flowers in their hair, one gazing at a lotus pond, one reading, one with her fishbowl and one sitting at a European style dressing table, fixing her hair in a looking glass
11 x 8¼ in. (28.9 x 21 cm.) (4)

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The Chinese artist known to the Western community as Lamqua (active 1820 to 55) was a student of George Chinnery, the British artist who lived in Canton and Macao from 1825 until his death in 1852. Lamqua, famously called on his trade sign "handsome face painter," mastered the grand English style Chinnery brought to the China coast, infuencing in turn a whole generation of China trade artists. After setting up on his own, Lamqua undercut Chinnery's prices, becoming, according to Crossman, "...the most celebrated Chinese painter in the English style in Canton." (The Decorative Arts of The China Trade, chapter 3.)