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Attributed to Namcheong(Chinese, active circa 1840-1870)Portrait of the Thomas Hunt & Co. Ship Challenge
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Attributed to Namcheong (Chinese, active circa 1840-1870)
unsigned
oil on canvas in original carved tropical hardwood frame
26 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.
framed 34 x 47 in.
Footnotes
Provenance
By descent from Captain James P. Cook (1821-92) of Salem, Massachusetts, through his daughter Mary Abigail Cook Sutton (1860-1945), who was born in Whampoa (Huangpu), China.
Literature
Thomas Hunt & Co. (active c. 1845-68) was a chandlery and mercantile firm established at Whampoa (Huangpu), by Captain Thomas Hunt (1805-70) of Salem, Massachusetts. In 1854, Hunt sold the firm to James B. Endicott (1814-70) and his brother-in-law, Captain James P. Cook, who opened branch offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai before closing the business in 1868. See Carl L. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade (Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1991), p. 139-45; for examples of ship portraits that Hunt and Cook commissioned from the Whampoa artist Namcheong (active 1845-70), flying identical company flags, see color plates no. 47-8.



