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- Title
CHINESE VISITORS TO 18TH CENTURY BRITAIN AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO ITS CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE.
- Authors
Clarke, David
- Abstract
This essay introduces three 18th century Chinese visitors to Britain, analysing the important role they played in cross‐cultural intellectual and artistic contact between the two countries. Loum Kiqua, a merchant, arrived in London in 1756. He gave the first known performance on a Chinese musical instrument in the West. Chitqua, a portrait modeller who arrived in 1769, exhibited at the newly‐established Royal Academy (becoming the first named Chinese artist to have a work shown in an overseas exhibit). Whang at Tong (Whang Atong, Huang Yadong), was only in his early 20s at the time of his arrival in England in August 1774, but he played a significant role in the transfer of botanical knowledge from China to the West through his connections with John Bradby Blake in Canton and his father John Blake in London.
- Subjects
CHINESE musical instruments; ROYAL Academy of Arts (Great Britain); 18TH century painting; PORTRAITS; BURNEY, Charles, 1736-1814; EIGHTEENTH century
- Publication
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 2017, Vol 34, Issue 4, p498
- ISSN
1355-4905
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/curt.12201