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Ambassador’s Residence and Embassy
We reviewed art displays at the Ambassador’s Residence and British Embassy in Beijing in 2003. At the Residence several works relate to Chinese themes, including Martin Archer Shee’s elegant portrait, Sir George Thomas Staunton, a writer and politician associated with China during the early-mid 1800s. Works on paper include scenes from William Alexander’s set of engravings,
An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China (1796). Ozias Humphrey’s portrait of George Macartney, the first British Ambassador to China, was later added in 2006 to accompany the Staunton portrait and Alexander prints.
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GAC works of art being delivered to the British Embassy. |
At the Embassy, we emphasised Anglo-Chinese associations with Patrick Caulfield’s screenprints from his 1990 White Ware portfolio, and Simon Patterson’s 1992 lithograph The Great Bear, a witty transformation of the London Underground map which includes the names of famous Chinese political, historical and cultural figures.
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