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Figs. 4.89.a. to 4.89.d.
Four portraits of
Chinese dignitary
women, seated on a
chair, side table with
vase with flowers, fan
in left hand, bound
feet, anonymous, oil
on glass, 19th century,
60.5 x 45.x cm
(2 paintings) and
70 x 51 cm (2 paintings),
Wereldmuseum
Rotterdam,
inv.nos. 3954 to 3957.

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174 Meares 1790, 8, quoted in Lee 2005, 77.
175 Haskins 1803, 85 and note 6, quoted in Crossmann 1991, 43, in his turn quoted in Lee 2005, 78. Haskins’ diary is
privately owned.
176 Crossman 2001, 72-105. Lee 2005, 107-143.
177 Tiffany, Jr. 1849, 85, quoted in Lee 2005, 149. A limner is a painter, especially of portraits or miniatures.
178 The Rijksmuseum owns two portraits of the wife of Van Braam Houckgeest, produced by Spoilum, according
to Crossman (1991, 35; inv.nos. AK-RAK-2007-6 and AK-RAK-2003-7). The VOC employer and chief of the Dutch
factory Van Braam Houckgeest lived in Canton on and off from 1758. He was a member of the VOC embassy to the
court of the Qianlong emperor in Beijing in 1794-1795. Read more on the acquisition of the portaits of the family
members of Van Braam Houckgeest: Van Campen 2005-a and -b. I am not aware of any self-portraits of Dutch
merchants or family members painted in China in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries.
179 Crossman 1991, 35-91. Tillotson 1987.