Mario Buatta: Prince of Interiors
Mario Buatta: Prince of Interiors
FRANCES C. FAIRMAN | THE BOXER REBELLION
Auction Closed
January 25, 03:59 AM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
FRANCES C. FAIRMAN
British
1836 - 1923
THE BOXER REBELLION
signed F.C. Fairman.1902. (lower right), inscribed [..]d Kingdom Japan China 1901 (on a scroll at lower center)
oil on canvas
44 ¼ by 34 in.; 112.4 by 86.4 cm
Mrs. Hugh Andrews, Toddington Manor, Gloucestershire (according to a label on the reverse)
W. Secord, Dog Painting, 1840-1940: A Social History of the Dog in Art (Suffolk, England, 1992) p. 99, illustrated
The dogs represent Great Britain and France signing the peace treaty, the Boxer Protocol, that ended the Boxer Rebellion, an anti-imperialist uprising in China that took place between 1899 and 1901 at the end of the Qing dynasty. Great Britain and France were part of an Eight-Nation Alliance, which also included the United States, Russia, Japan, Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary. China and the Eight-Nation Alliance signed the Boxer Protocol on September 7, 1901.