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19th C. China Trade Seascape with the Ship Avon in Stormy Seas, by Lai Fong
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19th Century China Trade Seascape with the Ship Avon in Stormy Seas, by Lai Fong (active: 1875 - 1905), circa 1890, an oil on canvas starboard side view of a square-rigged ship under furled and reefed sails, with decks awash, under leaden sky on heavy seas, unsigned. This is one of a series of three paintings by Lai Fong of the Avon offered here.
The painting is finely painted in a thin coat on a thin canvas, as is typical with China Port paintings. It has fantastic, precise detail and a very fierce, dramatic palette. It has been relined and remains in very good condition with fine craquelure and perhaps a few small scuffs or spots of touch-ups. Mounted in the original hardwood frame with gilt filet.
The Avon was built as the "Dunolly" by Charles Connell of Glasgow in 1884, at 256 foot length, 38 foot beam, 23 foot depth and a displacement of 1,572 tons. She was purchased by the Nourse Line and renamed the "Avon" in 1890. She was used in the China Trade primarily for transporting laborers from India to other British colonies.
Lai Fong was born in Hong Kong and was active in the last quarter of the 19th Century. He later migrated to Calcutta became one of the leading port painters. In his career spanning from the mid-1870s to around 1905, he painted a wide variety of vessels from around the world, and his work featured a blend of European and American norms of ship portrait painting rendered in the China Trade style. He was renown for his precise, even scrupulous detail to the ships, with such focus that he tended to leave his backgrounds fairly plain without great coastal landscape detail. Lai Fong frequently dated his work, while most China trade paintings were neither signed nor dated.
Measures: 9-1/2 in H x 15-1/2 in W
Framed: 14-1/8 in H x 20-1/4 in W
- Dimensions:Height: 14.13 in (35.9 cm)Width: 20.25 in (51.44 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
- Style:Chinese Export (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:Circa 1890
- Condition:Repaired: The painting has been relined at some time in the past. Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Nantucket, MA
- Reference Number:Seller: AD - 293-57 ELI1stDibs: LU903944932682
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