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FINE CHINA TRADE PAINTINGS FROM MARTYN GREGORY, LONDON, PART II
Lot 168*

SPOILUM (ACTIVE 1770-1805)
Portrait of a young man

15 May 2025, 11:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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SPOILUM (ACTIVE 1770-1805)

Portrait of a young man
Oil on canvas, framed.
44cm (17 1/4in) high x 36cm (14in) wide.

Footnotes

史貝霖(活躍於1770-1805年) 年輕男子肖像 布面油畫 有框

Provenance: Martyn Gregory, London

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Martyn Gregory, George Chinnery, Artist of Macau: Historical Pictures by Western and Eastern Artists on the China Coast, catalogue 103, London, 2023, p.51, no.46

來源:倫敦古董商Martyn Gregory

展覽著錄:Martyn Gregory,《George Chinnery, Artist of Macau: Historical Pictures by Western and Eastern Artists on the China Coast, catalogue 103》,倫敦,2023年,第51頁,編號46

This work is characteristic of a number of Spoilum's portraits of the 1780s and 1790s, oval bust-length portraits on canvas supported by laminated stretcher. It exhibits his unrivalled finesse as a Chinese painter of Western physiognomy.

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