RH.A., is still highly revered among artists of the West. But it is a safe bet that the vast majority of the foreign popula tion of China has never heard it. Everyone, however, who takes an interest in the early history of European influence in this country; especially those who love pictures, should miss no ies. For Chinnery lived in opportunity of seeing his paint
Canton and Macao (in the latter place his bones still lie) during all the romantic years of the factory days and the great Hou Qua, prince of the old hong merchants, and has left us many. studies of long forgotten types, besides others which' are as representative of Chinese life today as they were when Qhinnery drew them a hundred years ago and probably were a millennium before that. Not long ago a large collection which includes some of the best that Chinnery ever painted, came into the market at Home, and were promptly bought up by the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank. Two of them were identified as portraits of an early Jardine and a fellow (Matheson, and Ewo successfully established its claim to be allowed to take these two over. But the rest hang in the house of the Chief Manager of Wayfoong at Hongkong.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.