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SPOILUM OR LAMQUA (CIRCA 1805) Portrait of Captain John Strudwick Crofts of the East India Company image 1
SPOILUM OR LAMQUA (CIRCA 1805) Portrait of Captain John Strudwick Crofts of the East India Company image 2
FINE CHINA TRADE PAINTINGS FROM MARTYN GREGORY, LONDON, PART II
Lot 180

SPOILUM OR LAMQUA (CIRCA 1805)
Portrait of Captain John Strudwick Crofts of the East India Company

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

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SPOILUM OR LAMQUA (CIRCA 1805)

Portrait of Captain John Strudwick Crofts of the East India Company
Oil on canvas
inscribed on old label:
'This portrait of my dear brother John Strudwick Crofts (a Captain in E.I.C's European Regiment at Bombay) was taken by a Chinese Artist - about the year 1805 at Canton in China' (on the reverse of the label is an invitation to Mr Crofts from the Dowager Duchess of Chichester)
57.2cm (22 1/2in) high x 45.1cm (17 3/4in) wide.

Footnotes

史貝霖或關喬昌(約1805年) 東印度公司船長John Strudwick Crofts肖像 布面油畫 有框

Provenance: Martyn Gregory, London
Kenneth and Nancy Main, US
Martyn Gregory, London

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Martyn Gregory, Chinnery and paintings of the China Coast, catalogue 51, London, 1988, p.92, no.112
Martyn Gregory, Hong Kong and the China Trade, catalogue 92, London, 2014/2015, pp.72-73, no.53
Martyn Gregory, Two centuries of 'China Trade' painting 1770-1970, catalogue 100, London, 2019/2020, p.83, no.96

來源:倫敦古董商Martyn Gregory
Kenneth和Nancy Main伉儷,美國
倫敦古董商Martyn Gregory

展覽著錄:Martyn Gregory,《Chinnery and paintings of the China Coast, catalogue 51》,倫敦,1988年,第92頁,編號112
Martyn Gregory,《Hong Kong and the China Trade, catalogue 92》,倫敦,2014/2015年,第72-73頁,編號53
Martyn Gregory,《Two centuries of 'China Trade' painting 1770-1970, catalogue 100》,倫敦,2019/2020年,第83頁,編號96

John Strudwick Crofts (1778-1849) was commissioned Lieutenant in the EIC's military service in Bombay (Mumbai) on 26 May 1800, and captain on 8 July 1809; he retired in England on 22 May 1816. His will, proved on 22 December 1849, shows him to have been a man of considerable means in Sussex, owning property in Brighton and Eastbourne as well as Uckfield where he lived. He is buried in the family vault at Sompting Church.

The 'European Regiment', initially raised in England in 1662 to garrison Bombay, was renamed the 1st Bombay (European) Regiment when a second such regiment was formed in 1839. This work is an intriguing hybrid of styles and may qualify either as a late Spoilum work or an early Lamqua.

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