清 約1820年 廣東洋行遠景 油彩 裝框 |

Berry Hill Galleries，紐約（印籤）
Paul Mellon 伉儷收藏，此後家族傳承

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The rapid pace of development along the Canton waterfront signals the city's economic and cultural significance to the Western communities residing there. Its changing outline was well chronicled and captured by both Western and Chinese artists. This wealth of documentation provides the means to place the present painting within a specific time frame. The painting depicts features that place it after 1815 when the powerful East India Trade Company paid to update their facades as seen in the columned balcony, large windows along the upper story and pediment roof but before the devastation of the 'Great Fire' of 1822. Winds carried the flames from a small bakery a mile and half away and within 36 hours had left the waterfront in ruins. For further reading on this topic see Patrick Conner, The Hongs of Canton, London, 2009, p. 73 and pp 89-103.

A painting nearly identical to the present in the Sze Yuan Tang Collection is illustrated in Patrick Conner, Paintings of the China trade, The Sze Yuan Tang Collection of Historic Paintings, Hong Kong Maritime Museum, Hong Kong, 2013, pl. 2, and again in op.cit. pl. 2.42. Two closely related views were sold in these rooms, the first of the same hongs but a slightly earlier view, 22nd January 2016, lot 1153 and the second painting of the same view as the present example but painted on copper from from the Elinor Gordon Collection, 23rd January 2010, lot 54.