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An English Private Collection of Chinese Export Paintings (Lots 517-524)
Lot 521

LAMQUA (ACTIVE 1825-1860)
Portrait of a Gentleman

12 – 19 May 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

£4,000 - £6,000

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LAMQUA (ACTIVE 1825-1860)

Portrait of a Gentleman
Oil on canvas, carved gilt wood frame.
24cm (9 1/2in) high x 20.5cm (8 1/8in) wide.

Footnotes

啉呱 紳士肖像 布面油畫 漆金木框

Provenance: Martyn Gregory, London

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Martyn Gregory, A China Voyage: Historical Pictures by Chinese and Western Artists, 1780-1950, catalogue 79, London, 2002, p.36, cat.35 (catalogued as Chinnery (1774-1852)); Martyn Gregory,
Reflections of the East, catalogue 87, 2011-12, no. 35.

This portrait potentially represents Thomas Chay Beale, son of Thomas Chay Beale (c.1810-57) who went on to enjoy a successful career in Shanghai. Although often described as Thomas Beale's cousin, he is identified by Harriett Low as the latter's illegitimate son, 'educated in England, and visits the best society here' (entry for 27 March 1832). Another possible candidate is Daniel Beale the younger (1798-1827), Thomas Beale's nephew, who died in Macau in 1827.

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