Lam Qua
Lam Qua(Chinese:Lâm quan;Cantonese Yale:Lam Kwan;1801–1860), orKwan Kiu Cheong(Quan kiều xương), was a Chinese painter from theCantonprovince inQing dynastyChina, who specialized in Western-style portraits intended largely for Western clients. Lam Qua was the first Chinese portrait painter to be exhibited in the West. He is known for his medical portraiture, and for his portraits of Western and Chinese merchants inCantonand Macau. He had a workshop in 'New China Street' among theThirteen FactoriesinCanton.
In the 1820s, Lam Qua is said by some contemporaries to have studied withGeorge Chinnery,the first English painter to settle in China – although Chinnery himself[1]denied this. Lam Qua became well-known and skilled in Chinnery's style of portraiture. He developed a following among the international community, and undercut Chinnery's prices.[citation needed]
From 1836 to 1855, Lam Qua produced a series of medical portraits of patients under treatment with physicianPeter Parker,a medical missionary from the United States. Parker commissioned Lam Qua to paint pre-operative portraits of patients who had large tumors or other major deformities. Some of the paintings are now part of a collection of Lam Qua's work held byYale Universityin the Peter Parker Collection at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library; others are in the Gordon Museum, Guy's Hospital, London.
References[edit]
- ^Conner, Patrick (March–April 1999). "Lamqua, Western and Chinese Painter".Arts of Asia.29(2): 46–64.
Further reading[edit]
- Chang, J. (1993). "A reconstructive surgeon's taste in art: Dr Peter Parker and the Lam Qua oil paintings".Annals of Plastic Surgery.30(5): 468–474.doi:10.1097/00000637-199305000-00016.PMID8342936.
- Gilman, Sander L. (1986)."Lam Qua and the development of a westernized medical iconography in China".Medical History.30(1): 57–69.doi:10.1017/S0025727300045038.PMC1139581.PMID3511337.
- Gregory, Martyn (2011).Lamqua: 'Portraits in the European style'.London: Martyn Gregory Gallery.OCLC828092679.
- Heinrich, Larissa N. (2008). "The Pathological Body: Lam Qua's Medical Portraiture".The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body Between China and the West.Chapel Hill: Duke University Press. pp. 39–71.doi:10.1215/9780822388821-003.ISBN9780822340935.JSTORj.ctv1220pt7.8.
- Hume, Edward H. (1946). "Peter Parker and the Introduction of Anesthesia into China".Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.1(4): 670–674.doi:10.1093/jhmas/1.4.670.PMID20278359.
- Rachman, Stephen (2004). "Memento Morbi:Lam Qua's Paintings, Peter Parker's Patients ".Literature and Medicine.23(1): 134–159.doi:10.1353/lm.2004.0009.PMID15264513.S2CID34457817.
External links[edit]
- Peter Parker's Lam Qua Paintings Collectionat Yale University
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