Ye Chung (China, act. Mid-19th Century) Portrait of the Clipper Ship Sancho Panza off Hong Kong

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Ye Chung (China, act. Mid-19th Century)

Portrait of the Clipper Ship Sancho Panza off Hong Kong
Unsigned, the artist identified on a label reading in part "Ye Chung Portrait Painter, No. 529 Queen's Road."
Oil on canvas, 30 x 38 in., in the original black-painted and carved frame.
Condition: Relined, inpainting mostly to sky, and to a repaired tear u.r.

Provenance: The collection of Henry Cabot Lodge, who served in the Senate, as an ambassador to South Vietnam, and as Richard Nixon's running mate in the 1960 Presidential election; by descent to the present owners.