Spoilum

Spoilum (active 1765–1805; Chinese name: Guan Zuolin) was a Chinese artist active in Guangzhou between 1785 and 1810, during the Old China Trade. He was the earliest oil painter in Canton.[1] He painted portraits of Chinese and Western merchants and sea captains in the Western style painting with oil on canvas rather than ink on paper or silk in the Chinese style.[2] He created paintings of Chinese hong merchants Eshing (silk merchant) and Puan Kee Qua.[3] His portraits of Western merchants typically required a two- or three-hour sitting, and cost $10.[4] He also mastered the European technique of reverse glass painting. Little is known of his life, although he was one of a family of painters, including his grandson Lam Qua, and is said to have traveled extensively in the West.[5]

Portrait of Eshing, by Spoilum

References
  1. Carbone, Iside (2002). "Glimpses of China Through the Export Watercolours of the 18th-19th Centuries: A Selection from the British Museum's Collection" (PDF). Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  2. Corrigan, Karina. "A World of Connections at the Peabody Essex Museum". Antiques and Fine Arts.
  3. "MIT Visualizing Cultures". visualizingcultures.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  4. Perdue, Peter C. "Spoilum (Guan Zuolin)". Rise & Fall of the Canton System. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  5. Liu, ed. by Lydia H. (1999). Tokens of exchange : the problem of translation in global circulations. Durham (N.C.): Duke University Press. p. 243. ISBN 978-0822324249.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)

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