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來源
Leggatt Brothers，倫敦，1962年
英國私人收藏，得於1962年11月
VIEW OF THE AMERICAN
SETTLEMENT, SHANGHAI
QING DYNASTY, CIRCA 1855
Chinese School, oil on canvas, ! nely painted
depicting a rare panorama of the ‘American
Ground’ across the Huangpu River with a variety
of rivercraft including tanka boats " ying American
and British " ags ferrying American and British
merchants in amongst the larger junks, sampans
and foreign vessels, framed
Height 26? in., 66.7 cm; Width 56? in., 143.5 cm
PROVENANCE
Leggatt Brothers, London, 1962
United Kingdom Private Collection, acquired
November 1962.
Paintings depicting the panorama of the
American Ground at Shanghai are rare. The
present impressive canvas is likely to have
been commissioned by an American merchant
from a Chinese artist in Shanghai in the mid- to
late-1850s. The painting illustrates, from left to
right: the British Consulate on the north end of
the ‘foreign anchorage’ on the Bund, Suzhou
Creek and Wills’ Bridge; American houses; the
land ! rst occupied by the American Episcopal
Church Mission; the American ground (today’s
Hongkou district) with the First Protestant
Episcopal Church (1848-1868); and the American
Consulate " ying the " ag. The river is occupied
with a variety of sea vessels, such as tanka boats
" ying American and British " ags while ferrying
American and British merchants in amongst the
larger junks, sampans and foreign boats. Another view of the American Settlement is
illustrated in P. Conner, Paintings of the China
Trade. The Sze Yuan tang Collection of Historic
Paintings, Hong Kong, 2013, pl. 37, which depicts
the north end of the Bund overlooking the
grounds of the British consulate while looking
across the junction of the two rivers.
The Sino-American Treaty of Wanghia was signed
on 3rd July 1844, which gave Americans the same
rights as those enjoyed by the British in China’s
treaty ports. In 1863 the American Concession
(from the Huangpu River to the north-east
of Suzhou Creek), o% cially joined the British
Settlement (Yang-ching-pang Creek to Suzhou
Creek) to become the Shanghai International
Settlement.
