Description
comprising six finely painted portraits on silk of the members a Chinese family and a portrait of George Grant, who stayed with the family whilst living in Beijing and commissioned these paintings, the seventh portrait depicting Mr Grant himself (7)
Dimensions
29x20cm approx
Footnote
Provenance:
From the collection of George A. Grant, a Scottish telegraph officer murdered in Mongolia in 1913 whilst trying to protect Chinese merchants from the bandits; the article 'A Brave Man's End', published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 11.10.1913, commemorates the courageous act by Mr Grant; thence by direct family descent.