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拍品專文
Lamqua, the famed Chinnery pupil and masterful Chinese artist, is best remembered for his exceptional oil portraits of important China trade figures - including his Self-Portrait aged 52 (now in the Hong Kong Museum of Art), which can certainly be viewed as a younger version of of this album's opening portrait.
Though Lamqua's younger brother, Tinqua, was the family specialist in China trade albums, Patrick Conner explains that each studio worked in all media, quoting a visitor who wrote on 28 September 1833 of paying Lamqua $8 for "1 book 12 paintings" and adding, "...no doubt...a series of gouaches on paper in a silk brocade binding." (Arts of Asia, March-April 1999, p 57.)
Though Lamqua's younger brother, Tinqua, was the family specialist in China trade albums, Patrick Conner explains that each studio worked in all media, quoting a visitor who wrote on 28 September 1833 of paying Lamqua $8 for "1 book 12 paintings" and adding, "...no doubt...a series of gouaches on paper in a silk brocade binding." (Arts of Asia, March-April 1999, p 57.)