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LAMQUA 471
STUDIO OF LAMQUA (MID-19TH CENTURY)
The late 18th and 19th centuries, with the increase of International Musicians and Warriors, part set
trade and presence of European merchants and residents in China, Gouache on paper, each leaf with a single figure, framed and glazed.
saw the flourishing, in the southern ports of Shanghai, Canton, Hong Each leaf: 28.5cm (11 1/4in) x 21.3cm (8 1/4in) (4).
Kong and Macau, of painters’ studios specialising in the Anglo-
Chinese style popular in England and Europe. £800 - 1,200
CNY7,300 - 11,000
The Studio of Lamqua, active from the second quarter of the 19th HK$8,800 - 13,000
century in Canton, was prominent amongst these. Lamqua was an
artist who catered for both Chinese and foreign audience; however, Provenance
it was arguably his ability to paint closely in the style of the famous Lamqua studio label and hand written note in French dated 15 April
English artist George Chinnery, who moved to Macau from Calcutta in 1860 (facsimile)
1825, which made him famous. From the second quarter of the 19th
century, it became fashionable for well-to-do travellers to and residents 472
of Canton to acquire Lamqua’s floral or costume studies, or to have STUDIO OF LAMQUA (MID-19TH CENTURY)
their portrait painted by him. For further information on Lamqua and Botanical studies, part set
his relationship to Chinnery, as well as examples of his portraiture Gouache on paper, each leaf with an arrangement of flower species,
and other paintings, see P. Conner, ‘Lamqua, Western and Chinese framed and glazed.
Painter’, Arts of Asia (1999) vol. 29, No. 2. Each leaf: 28.5cm (11 1/4in) x 21.3cm (8 1/4in) (8).

£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 28,000
HK$22,000 - 33,000

Provenance
Lamqua studio label and hand written note in French dated 15 April

1860 (facsimile)

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