CHINA MILLER (MILTON) Portrait of Liu Ch'ang-yu, the Governor-General of Canton, Kwangtung and Kwangsi, albumen print, captioned 'Lo. Viceroy of the Two Kwangs 1861' on mount, 190 x 148mm., [c.1861]; and 21 other albumen prints, including 6 portraits/groups of Chinese sitters, and 3 views (one Shanghai, 2 Canton), one photo of a Chinese painted view, and others of Europeans, some captioned in ink, mounted on 8 album sheets, 2 larger images (Canton, 185 x 210mm., 135 x 180mm.), others smaller, c.1860-1862 (group) Footnotes: Includes a fine portrait of the Chinese Governor-General of Canton by the American photographer Milton Miller who opened a studio in Canton between 1861 and 1863, demonstrating 'exceptional skill in studio portraiture' (Terry Bennett, History of Photography in China. Western Photographers 1861-1879, 2010, p.415). Other Chinese subjects 'Een-Cheong & family & friends', 'Canton Singing Girls', 2 studio portraits of elegantly dressed women, 'Canton Military Mandarin', 'Canton Mandarin', 2 views ('Chinese Gardens. Canton', and 'The Heights - Canton'), 'Pagoda at Shanghai'. The British subjects include a portrait of 'Major Dods, B.S. Corp' (probably Major George Dods, 1829-1904, who served for over thirty years in the Bengal Service), and a group of men (captioned 'Summer morning at the Tai Ping Hong, Konan 1862'). For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing