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1845), New York (1841), Pennsylvania (1851), and Boston (1851). Smart, is in Matheson & Co., Ltd. These portraits, all facing to the
One of his most remarkable paintings, of a similarly high quality as this sitter’s right, are not as sympathetic as the lithograph, or the Lamqua
portrait, was done from a print after Ingres’ Grande Odalisque, which examples.
is signed lower right in both English script and Chinese characters.
The sensitivity and luminosity of both strongly suggests the same This portrait, perhaps one of the most sympathetically executed, is
hand. one of the rarest portraits of an Asian merchant and is a visual record
of an extraordinary man rightly deemed “The Merchant Prince of
A portrait of Jeejeebhoy at the Oriental Club, London, is also recorded Bombay.”
as by John Smart. A similar waist-length portrait, apparently by
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