Lamqua (Chinese, active 1805-1830) Portrait of a seated gentleman holding a book, wearing a brown coat and black necktie oil on canvas 28.6 x 24.8cm (11 1/4 x 9 3/4in). in original Chinese gilt frame Footnotes: Provenance With Martyn Gregory, London. Peter and Nancy Thompson, Hong Kong. With Martyn Gregory, London. Exhibited Hong Kong, Martyn Gregory, The China Trade Observed: an Exhibition of Early Pictures Relating to the Far East, 1985, catalogue 41, no. 118. London, Martyn Gregory, China Observed: Historical Pictures by Chinese and Western Artists 1750-1970, 2015-2016, no. 97, catalogue 94. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing