Chinese
A Junk at Anchor in the Pearl River / An Indiaman off the Kent Coast (verso)
oil on board
signed and on verso signed R. Scott, titled on the Martyn Gregory label and dated 6 May 1831 and also dated circa 1820 on the label
15 x 20 in, 38.1 x 50.8 cm
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 CAD
Sold for: $10,000
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PROVENANCE
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, UK, 2001
Martyn Gregory Gallery, London, England
Private Collection, Vancouver
LITERATURE
25th Annual Exhibition of China Trade Paintings: Historical Pictures by Chinese and Western Artists, 1750 - 1875, Martyn Gregory Gallery, 2002, page 70, reproduced page 70
EXHIBITED
Martyn Gregory Gallery, London, 25th Annual Exhibition of China Trade Paintings: Historical Pictures by Chinese and Western Artists, 1750 - 1875, exhibited at The Altfield Gallery, Hong Kong, April 24 - 28, 2002 and the Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair, London, June 12 - 18, 2002, catalogue 78, no. 88
The Martyn Gregory Gallery cataloguing notes that A Junk at Anchor in the Pearl River depicts "a Fukien sea-going junk depicted beneath stormy skies, perhaps near the 'Second Bar' pagoda. An unusual feature of this picture is the fact that another painting, in a Western hand, has been executed on the back of the panel - presumably after it had been brought back from China. The latter painting depicts an Indiaman off the Kent coast, with a pilot boat approaching."
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