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19th Century Chinese school Art

Chinese, 1775-1900
Paintings from the China Trade Beginning in the late 1700s, an increasing number of international merchant vessels began bringing back to their respective ports cargos of exotic objects from China which found ready markets in America and Europe. An insatiable interest in Asian things resulted in a range of exquisite objects created by Chinese artisans specifically for the western markets. Among the items that filled the holds of the sailing ships were furniture, silk embroideries, lacquerware, ivory carvings, fans, and a fascinating variety of paintings. These paintings offered first hand documentation of the ships that plied the Far East Trade and the exotic ports they visited. These early ‘China Trade’ paintings are considered to be some of the finest harbor views and ship portraits ever produced. They usually have no signatures or labels and offer little or no indication of who the artist was. Only a score or so names from the period are even known and these may be positively identified with only a very few paintings.
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'Peacock Among Magnolia', Chinese Painting in Period Gilt Frame
By 19th Century Chinese school
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Framed dimensions: 15.5 H x 13 W x 1.75 D inches An elegant, 19th-century Chinese School gouache scroll painting fragment showing a richly-plumed peacock standing among magnolia and...
Category

19th Century Academic 19th Century Chinese school Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

'Peacock Among Magnolia', Chinese Painting in Period Gilt Frame
'Peacock Among Magnolia', Chinese Painting in Period Gilt Frame

19th Century Chinese school
'Peacock Among Magnolia', Chinese Painting in Period Gilt Frame, 19th Century

$2,250
Macao
By 19th Century Chinese school
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
The oldest European buildings in China are along the once curved crescent shore of the Praya Grande, where the Portuguese explorers established and fortified their trading foothold with an entire continent. When they arrived in 1553, this small fishing village overlooked by a temple to an ocean goddess immediately became an important cultural center of the world and the stage for initial interactions between the East and West. Ever since, this port has played a role in the cosmopolitan course of world trade. (The harbor is extensively filled in and built upon today.) In this view, more than 300 years after the Dutch established contact in the early 17th Century and western ships first sailed in the harbor, a British Sidewheel Steamer is in the port of Macao, surrounded by more than 20 Chinese vessels. The artist's perspective, looking northwest towards the Praya Grande's center, brings Praha Hill and its stone stairway in view, with the church on top. The inlaid stone walkway of the port city is full of human figures, one wearing a special red jacket while the rest wear blue or white. One westerner in a top hat at the stern post of the closest Chinese ship directs its crew outward bound...
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1860s Other Art Style 19th Century Chinese school Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Macao
Macao

19th Century Chinese school
Macao, Circa 1860

$42,000
View of the Hongs, Canton
By 19th Century Chinese school
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Sought by collectors worldwide, art and artifacts showing an early western presence in the Orient boomed with the opening of the China Trade by way of the sailing ship. The surviving paintings which capture the important Chinese harbors...
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1850s 19th Century Chinese school Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

View of the Hongs, Canton
View of the Hongs, Canton

19th Century Chinese school
View of the Hongs, Canton, Circa 1850

$44,000
Chinese courtesan
By 19th Century Chinese school
Located in GB
The painting is a delicate Chinese export artwork rendered on rice paper, showcasing the refined detail and stylistic elegance characteristic of 18th to 19th-century export art made ...
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19th Century Ming 19th Century Chinese school Art

Materials

Tempera, Rice Paper

Chinese courtesan
Chinese courtesan

19th Century Chinese school
Chinese courtesan

$815
[CHINESE SCHOOL]. Two Watercolour Scenes.
By 19th Century Chinese school
Located in London, GB
[CHINESE SCHOOL]. Two Watercolour Scenes. Possibly Canton ca.1820]. Very impressive large scale watercolours of Chinese scenes, presumably executed for the Western market by an an...
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1820s Naturalistic 19th Century Chinese school Art

Materials

Watercolor

[CHINESE SCHOOL]. Two Watercolour Scenes.
[CHINESE SCHOOL]. Two Watercolour Scenes.

19th Century Chinese school
[CHINESE SCHOOL]. Two Watercolour Scenes., c. 1820

$54,394
'A Pair of Mandarin Ducks Settled on a Pond'
By 19th Century Chinese school
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Framed dimensions: 11 H x 12.5 W x 1.25 D inches An elegant, 19th-century Chinese School, gouache scroll painting fragment showing a pair of a richly-pl...
Category

19th Century 19th Century Chinese school Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

'A Pair of Mandarin Ducks Settled on a Pond'
'A Pair of Mandarin Ducks Settled on a Pond'

19th Century Chinese school
'A Pair of Mandarin Ducks Settled on a Pond'

$1,250
Chinese portrait of a gentleman from the court
By 19th Century Chinese school
Located in GB
The painting is executed with meticulous precision on delicate rice paper, typical of Chinese export art produced for Western collectors in the 18th or 19th century. Its composition ...
Category

19th Century 19th Century Chinese school Art

Materials

Gouache, Rice Paper

Chinese portrait of a gentleman from the court
Chinese portrait of a gentleman from the court

19th Century Chinese school
Chinese portrait of a gentleman from the court

$815
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  • Who was one of the most important portrait painters of the 19th century?
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    British artist John Singer Sargent was one of the most important portrait painters of the 19th century. Other notable portraitists from the period include James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Géricault, Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Mary Cassat, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. On 1stDibs, find a wide variety of portrait paintings.
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    The French painters of the 19th century worked in two styles. Neoclassicism dominated the first half of the century, and Impressionism was the most common style during the second half. On 1stDibs, you can find a variety of French paintings.

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