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A large framed portrait of a seated East Asian official or ancestor figure with a white beard, wearing a gold-trimmed hat and dark robes, holding a string of beads, seated on a chair draped in blue and red against a gold leaf background, in a distressed black frame.

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Close-up of the painted signature ‘J. Trowell’ with a two-digit date, in black paint beneath the blue drapery near the base of the chair.

J. Trowell

Seated ancestor portrait

Paint and gold leaf on canvas
Approx. 46 × 37 in.
Signed and dated “J. Trowell 78” near the figure’s foot
In the manner of 19th-century Late Qing dynasty ancestor portraits

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