Chitqua (also Chet-qua or Tan Chetqua) is the first Chinese artist to exhibit at the Royal Academy. He was listed as “sculptor” in the exhibition catalogue in London in 1770. Born around 1728 and died in 1796 in Canton (now: 廣州Guangzhou), he was a clay modeller who modelled unfired clay portrait figures for European people, he travelled from China via ships of the British East India Company. He left Canton for London in 1769, where he received a high reputation for his modelling technique. His success was not a coincidence but a consequence of the Chinese Taste— one of the art styles in eighteenth century London society following the British East India Company's significant expansions in Asia since its establishment in 1600. This dissertati...
Ch\u27i Chih-chia (1594–?) was a man of letters who indulged in versatile cultural activities at the...
In 1881, the British Museum made its first major acquisition of Japanese and Chinese paintings from ...
The encounters between Britain, Japan and China brought about by trade, travel and colonialism from ...
Chitqua (also Chet-qua or Tan Chetqua) is the first Chinese artist to exhibit at the Royal Academy. ...
Portraits of hong merchants produced in the latter period of the Canton Trade (1820-1840) portray th...
William Alexander (1767-1816) was an English artist attached to the Macartney Embassy to China (1792...
The collecting of Chinese ceramics had become an increasingly popular activity in late 19th-century ...
This article offers an overview of British responses to Chinese music in the 18th century, and discu...
Electronic version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holderT...
This PhD project seeks to understand how chinaware was used and appreciated in London tradesmen’s ho...
Britain is widely recognised as the home of many significant collections of Chinese art, such as the...
This chapter considers how the novelty of the Yuanmingyuan objects was received and conceived of by ...
This thesis examines the work of Tilly Kettle (1735-1786), the first professional British artist to ...
In 1974, an army of over 7,000 life size soldiers and horses sculpted in clay and equipped with actu...
The sixteenth century in China was a period of rapid and unprecedented economic expansion. The perio...
Ch\u27i Chih-chia (1594–?) was a man of letters who indulged in versatile cultural activities at the...
In 1881, the British Museum made its first major acquisition of Japanese and Chinese paintings from ...
The encounters between Britain, Japan and China brought about by trade, travel and colonialism from ...
Chitqua (also Chet-qua or Tan Chetqua) is the first Chinese artist to exhibit at the Royal Academy. ...
Portraits of hong merchants produced in the latter period of the Canton Trade (1820-1840) portray th...
William Alexander (1767-1816) was an English artist attached to the Macartney Embassy to China (1792...
The collecting of Chinese ceramics had become an increasingly popular activity in late 19th-century ...
This article offers an overview of British responses to Chinese music in the 18th century, and discu...
Electronic version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holderT...
This PhD project seeks to understand how chinaware was used and appreciated in London tradesmen’s ho...
Britain is widely recognised as the home of many significant collections of Chinese art, such as the...
This chapter considers how the novelty of the Yuanmingyuan objects was received and conceived of by ...
This thesis examines the work of Tilly Kettle (1735-1786), the first professional British artist to ...
In 1974, an army of over 7,000 life size soldiers and horses sculpted in clay and equipped with actu...
The sixteenth century in China was a period of rapid and unprecedented economic expansion. The perio...
Ch\u27i Chih-chia (1594–?) was a man of letters who indulged in versatile cultural activities at the...
In 1881, the British Museum made its first major acquisition of Japanese and Chinese paintings from ...
The encounters between Britain, Japan and China brought about by trade, travel and colonialism from ...