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GEORGE ROBERT WEST (FL.1844-1857) GEORGE ROBERT WEST (FL.1844-1857)
The United States Consulate in Keechong, Shanghai, 1849 Shanghai Park: the spring race meeting of April 1849 taken from the
signed ‘G.R. West’ (lower left) top of Mr J. Grant’s house
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper signed ‘G.R. West’ (lower left)
10 x 14ºin. (25.4 36.2cm.) pencil and watercolour heightened with white on paper
8æ x 14Ωin. (22.3 x 36.8cm.)
£7,000-10,000 US$8,800-12,000
€8,000-11,000 £10,000-15,000 US$13,000-19,000
€12,000-17,000
PROVENANCE:
with Kennedy Galleries, New York (94984). PROVENANCE:
Museum of the American China Trade, Milton, Massachusetts, by whom with Martyn Gregory, London, 1985, cat.41, no.138 (when described as titled
deaccessioned through Maine Arts Gallery, Salem, Massachusetts, from on the original mount).
whom acquired by the late owner.
EXHIBITED:
The artist was attaché to Caleb Cushing, the Envoy Extraordinary and the Brighton, The Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, The China Trade, 1600-1860,
Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Empire of China. 'He was Feb.-April 1986, no.64.
a schooled artist who recorded Cushing's expedition to China in more than a
hundred drawings.'

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